Three Witnesses Comments

You absorbed my poem into y-o-u-r awareness, which complete the poem as communication. don't want to think of animal-human-angel being a ladder of ascent. Each is a form that Life takes and is autonomous, but they will interact on a more conscious, creative level in future evolution. How about that? Interspecies communication would add so much to cultural evolution.

I agree with your final words, but my own belief is that we move ever further from that evolutionary position. I see no ladder of ascent such as you mention. Rather, I see man has removed himself from the equation, to the point where we have become observers. If my natural feeling of separation does your beautiful poem a disservice I apologise unreservedly. One can only draw from art what one is able to assimilate based on one's nature.

You have not done my poem a disservice. A lyric poem can never make a thorough argument; in fact, argumentation is not its purpose.I agree with your viewpoint, but I yearn for a deep contact with other species and that old Ladder of Being which privileges humanity has to go. It makes rapport impossible. Wordsworth went part of the way when he sensed SOMETHING FAR MORE DEEPLY INTERFUSED. But we have to go further and deeper.