Trophies of Nature

Trophies of Nature

Dr Abe V Rotor

Trophies in vanity and pride,

in gold and silver, huge and tall;

Nature pleading on the other side,

for man to remember the Fall.   

  

 

A trophy - dead branch from a forest before, its 

message clear to the logger, and slash-and-burn 

farmer, could their conscience bear?     

 

Left:  Whatever happened to Noah's emissary - the blackbird, 

now extinct save its replica in the museum. 

 Right:  Driftwood "fished out" from the sea bears fossils 

and empty burrows.   

 

Left: Who is proud of having a souvenir - a head of a deer - on the wall?

Mirror of man's folly and cruelty, compassion if any at all.

Right: Splinters and shards, remnants of a once majestic tree, 

we openly call with pride as heritage tree.

 

Left: Trophy made of a thorny cherry - but why man's enemy

when it gives the sweetest jelly?

Right: "Womb of a Tree" - abode of a symbiont in mutual 

relationship with the host tree. Now both are gone.

We kill trees for their weird looks. Superstition prevails over 

intellect. We can only surmise who deserve to receive 

these trophies?

  

Duck Head  Figurine

 

Once hunted on water and in air,

now figurine, a grim reminder.   

 

Driftwood trophy

Why gold or silver a trophy:

why not remnant of a tree,

 shells forgotten and empty,

to wake us up to reality?

 

 

Driftwood Table Decor

Wasteland in the hall,

  a dreaded scene,

   aftermath of the Fall, 

of man's first Sin. 

 "You can hear the sea in the city."  Does this giant shell 

deserve this acclaim for its demise? 

Nature Trophies Unlimited

A collection of Nature remains which resemble unique features of creatures and objects, a subject of pseudoscience called cryptobiology. On display at the author's residence at the Living with Nature Center in San Vicente Ilocos Sur. ~