Autumn Itinerary

Autumn begets a withered world of rusted leaves.
Its winds add a tenebrous coldness to my dreams,
Which in deep green summer,were copiously blessed.
I will seek to counter the oncoming darkness.
With my lighted candles and splendid story- books.
I will invoke the delights of spring as I look,
At page after page, of enchantment. Golden words,
I will savour, and my heart will sing like the birds
Again. I'll plan a programme of poetic goals,
In a life-long quest to enrich my sovereign soul.