The Breath of Life

Listen to the muses, Orpheus,

Through the trees,

For they say the soul is borne along by wind.

Watch the misty dawn of reason, Aristotle,

Where mystics turn philosophers

And shrouded groves persist

Among Apollo's cheer.

Say the trees cannot have souls

For they do not breathe.

Your errors shall be immortalized

In books: the trees shall be a sacrifice.

Generations pass,

The green woods ebb and flow,

The wind commands the clouds to cross the sun

And daylight breathes upon the sill.

The roots still hold the earth

Where mystics and philosophers

Have gone to final rest.

The trees still breathe and grow,

Conjuring themselves,

As though by mystic art,

From the wind.

Reviews

[Red Brick Keshner]

Curious thought: how trees turn my CO2 to H2O to help me breath in a cycle as old as time!

[Casey Truax]

Carl Sagan called it a "planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation."

[Red Brick Keshner]

...how very symbiotic an image and motion!

[Lisasview]

Hi Casey,
First read of yours and I see you have had 28 Views...and I wonder what?? Are the readers afraid to review?
Do they perhaps not understand what you are trying to say?
Reviewing is so important... not just for the writer but for the reader too.
I enjoyed your thoughts...
The only small issue I see is with your punctuation.
For example Either there needs to be a period at the end of the first line or the T in through does not need to be capitalised.
Words after a comma never start with a capital.
In the following I have made a few corrections......

Listen to the muses, Orpheus.
Through the trees for they say the soul is borne along by wind.
Watch the misty dawn of reason, Aristotle, where mystics turn philosophers. (Here I would put Aristotle at the beginning of the line..so it would read like this "Aristotle, watch the misty dawn of reason, where mystics turn philosophers."
And, shrouded groves persist among Apollo's cheer.

I am no expert but to me your lines do read better this way...
If you do not agree then no worries...
Lisa, now in Spain