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1st Post - The Architecture of Cottonwoods Vol. 4
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Canto "I" is about the Nature of Life, and starts the book in the month of June 1993. Canto "CDLXXXIV" is a Christmas / New Year's Eve poem for 1999 that ends the book. These two cantos are the first and last poems of the book by Joseph W. Greif "The Architecture of Cottonwoods Vol.4"


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I
 
as above is as below
we are all here …
 
…in-between…
 
our first breath
and the “in due time” of our departing…  
 
+
 
 
and there are reasons to remember these in-between days of our living
 
for life as a biography of new beginnings here and there
and on the other side of what we know continues human life
 
…human life is sung of here as a symphony of organic life
 
planted in this garden life…once without weeds (it was said)
now a little more than overgrown
 
yet the potential for a weedless life reseeds the seasons and the reasons for living life
year after year after year…
 
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and the humors of spirit life sound out as is their nature
in yearly gardening songs connecting symphonic human nature
to some other nature which pulls with forces that help things grow
 
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          …and then asks at the ripening of these forming forms
 
          what is it that begins in time and grows until it knows…that in 
          planting
 
          (a reason for living) again and again and again…
 
          humans and their nature (continually searching)
          show themselves to be the same in their creating
 
         …and connecting an art of living …and dying
         to unmeasured rhythms always changing…
 
        …and always returning too
        the never ending 
        that we all are
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                           CDLXXXIV
 
 
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 Reviews of "1st Post - The Architecture of Cottonwoods Vol. 4"
Reviewed by Edwin Hurdle
Reviewed on June 27, 2009
An excellent and well written poem,take care

EDWIN

Reviewed by Michelle Mead
Reviewed on June 27, 2009
I like how you tied the beginning and end of this poem together with the cycle of life, be in man or plant, etc. This may sound weird, but i think the font adds to the poem as much as the form, and obviously, the word choice and thought process. Enjoyed.


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