It feels like you set out to paint a landscape of autumn and from the brush flowed out these pictorial words with some appropriate metaphors for hope [old virgin, dying man] ...i could see the picture and feel the melancholic mood...

i also liked the lines "on the cold pillow of the autumn wind"....

you may want to change shadows swings to shadows swing

a pleasure read..
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Like a hope of an old virgin,
like a wish of a dying man,
like my faith in myself,
it cuddles, makes curls and spirals
on the cold pillow
of the autumn wind.

like a wish of a dying man,...>>>>>>this appears as pointedly to and for me thanks Irene
exquisite poetry

and the one feather.. nice poetry

One comment -Sorry to be the only one who does not like "old virgin" After a certain age having passed the better years I don't think those virgins are hoping to have sex. When I think of old I think of like at least 70 ...if you haven't done it yet, I think you're probably over the hope, or desire, of doing it...

But yes, I assume in sexual content, as opposed to a virgin voyage or other use of the word virgin. If the old person's hope was directed otherwise, why use that aspect of her, other than that he or she, is a virgin. I suppose a virgin could be blessed by adopted children, but then we're looking too much into it...
But just one aspect of a very strong poem.