The Autumn Sonata

This is the first of three movements -

-   the flower is turning - this today' game 

memory along - with hedges  - proved to be obscured

the Te Deum of desire is confounded by leaves

as slumber creeps upon the sense so shaped

- locked in it's abuse - the quiet soul - existential

- a question - a relief - beckoned by fading lanes 

frames - now village painted walls - some score partridge

- a hobbled discretion - intent - on feeding - random graze

- branches touch the earth  - each one a genuflection 

the world found again - a course is closing 

the infinite - now a warm space - a single room

a robins song defined - final in the compass

my bell - treble precise sounds - a marked bloom

well repeated vows - a wedding - alternate investment 

- loops of festooned ropes - mystery touched - cast shadows

' Look to - the trebles going - she's away '

luck lays by a form - a four -leafed clover

the topic dropped - discarded - the wan sunlight forgets 

below - a congregation's chorale - a patriotic Holst gusto

seasons this marriage day - as the veil dissolves 

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

autumn, the changes, the dying, the gathering, summer limping towards winter...movement in color, movement in music, movement towards change.
nicely done.

[Sami Khalil]

So many layers in this. Your Autumn is defined by the shadows cast from your past and the marriage bells...Excellent...:)...............

[kangsora]

I love this poem and I adore the title " The Autumn Sonata" extremely beautiful.