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This poe can be considered: This poe can be considered spiritual survival 101.  Writing this comment from the twists and turns of a bad patch right now, I can look again to Hope after reading this poem.  That, alone, proves its legitimacy as a masterpiece.  I have missed Patricia's presence on this site, recently, and so the appearance of this poem is an event which carries several levels of impotance.   The poem's logical progress occurs in three sections.  In the first, or Bonsai, section, the poem describes and laments "the artificiality" of existence that the present state of society forces on to us.  After describing what a Bonsai existence is, she brilliantly locates its cause in the loss of the sight, due to cloudiness, of the starfields.  This then leads into what I would call the Starfield section.  Even as her perspective on the Cosmos experences a shrinkage, or drawing back, that the perspective will open again and briing back everything that is both beautiful and lasting; and this activates the last section of the poem, which can be called the Lasting Beautiful.  She realizes that the Lasting Beautiful can be attained again because she has never left God; and that is because God will never foresake her, as the great Hebrews epistile in the Bible declares.  And at that point, the poem ends, with that triumphant orchestral cadence of the final line.