Autumn Came to me presents the season of autumn as a sensuous, complex feminine presence—both muse and living force. Rather than treating autumn as a passive backdrop, the poem imagines her as a woman with her own burdens, moods, and vulnerabilities, inviting attention, care, and dialogue.
Through this personification, the poem explores the intimate relationship between the human imagination and the natural world. Autumn becomes a figure of transformation and impermanence, embodying cycles of change that resonate with emotional and creative processes. For the poet, she functions as a muse not in an idealized sense, but as a presence that inspires through tension, fragility, and depth.
Positioned within ecopoetic thought, the work suggests a symbiotic connection between human creativity and seasonal life. It foregrounds attentiveness as an ethical stance, proposing that noticing, listening to, and engaging with nature is itself a form of care—especially within an age marked by ecological uncertainty and extinction.
The project is part of the subtheme Symbiotic Futures – Ecopoetics in the Age of Extinction.
Author
Yurii Nosenko
Yurii Mykhailovych Nosenko was born on May 11, 1966 in Ukraine, in the village of Pirogy, Globyn district, Poltava region. Higher education, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences. The author of three poetry collections: "Songs of my Heart" (2021), "Light and Darkness" (2024), "The Chosen One" (2025).
