AUTUMN RAIN......

AUTUMN RAIN by D.H. Lawrence published in 1917 during WW1. The poem is said to be one long sentence , resembling rain falling here and there, there and here....

 The plane leaves
fall black and wet
on the lawn;

 the cloud sheaves
in heaven’s fields set
droop and are drawn

 in falling seeds of rain;
the seed of heaven
on my face

  falling — I hear again  like echoes even that softly pace  heaven’s muffled floor,the winds that tread  out all the grain

 of tears, the store
harvested

 in the sheaves of pain

 caught up aloft:
the sheaves of dead

 men that are slain

 now winnowed soft
on the floor of heaven;

 manna invisible

 of all the pain

 here to us given;

 finely divisible

 falling as rain.

 Photographs 2019   

Spencer with Rona