The Autumn Sonata Poem by michael oliver

-the flower is turning - this is today's game
memory along with hedges - prove to be obscured
the Te Deum of desire is confounded by leaves
as slumber creeps upon the sense shaped

locked in its abuse - the quiet soul - existential
- a question - a relief - beckoned by fading lanes
frames - now painted village walls - some score partridge
- a hobbled discretion - intent - on feeding -random graze

- branched 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 song robin defined - final in compass

my bell - treble precise - sounds -a bloomed mark
well repeated vows - a wedding - alternate investment
- loops of festooned ropes - mystery hung - cast shadows
'Look to - the trebles going - she is 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