While in 2017, when World War 1 raged through Europe, D.H. Lawrence published the poem «Autumn Rain», 113 years later we face the dreadful waves of Covid-19 raging through most parts of the world.
The plane leaves
fall black and wet
on the lawn;the cloud sheaves
in heaven’s fields set
droop and are drownin falling seeds of rain;
the seed of heaven
on my facefalling – I hear again
like echoes even
that softly paceheaven’s muffled floor
winds that tread
out all the grainof tears, the store
harvested
in the sheaves of paincaught up aloft:
the sheaves of dead
people that are slainnow winnowed soft
on the floor of heaven;
manna invisibleof all the pain
D.H. Lawrence
here to us given;
finely divisible
falling as rain
© 2020, photos Uster and Goms
Note, the poem was slightly changed to modern circumstances