EcoArt Series RED DAWN (Article in Progress)

EcoArt Series

Red Dawn

Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

A red dawn (or red sky in the morning) traditionally means that a storm or bad weather is approaching. 

White doves bring peace from the sky

to the battleground down below,

amidst sounds of gun and children's cry.

Sh...Welcome the new dawn's glow.

 

Forest fire, the day after, glows in ember,  

 requiem of nature for man to remember, 

being her guardian to arise from slumber,

 to keep the earth holy within his power.

 

Mars, the red planet may not be alone for long;

our Earth, towards its early sunset may belong.

  

Dainty flowers in monstrous look denies

beauty, their fragrance dearth;

gone are the friendly bees and butterflies,

that bring heaven to earth. 

 

Fish herald the day by the school

before fishers arrive at the shoal.

Rhodophytes glow in the deep sea

where the sun can reach  ;

Porphyra makes a pasture for fish,

nurtures them to our table. 

Release your thoughts and feelings through writing

Release your thoughts and feelings

through writing

Writing hones the senses into deeper thinking and analysis, catalyzes understanding and comprehension, and keeps memory longer.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Marlo and Leo, author's children, writing on sand - a blackboard 

of sort, and more.  Puerto Sunken Pier, San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur

Without map and you are in the field, the best thing you can do is get a stick and draw on the ground.

That’s how village folks plan out irrigation schedules, show the location of a remote sitio (purok), design a makeshift hut – or simply to while away time in thoughts and ideas.

Christ did write on the ground, and on one occasion made two curves facing each other to look like fish - one end its tail, the other its head. It is the simplest yet most symbolic drawing I’ve ever seen. Before he uttered these famous words, “He who has no sin, casts the first stone,” He wrote something on the ground which we can only assume to be a mark of supreme meditation.

Writing hones the senses into deeper thinking and analysis, catalyzes understanding and comprehension, and keeps memory longer. Scientists say that we learn but a measly one-fourth of the lesson by just listening to it alone, but with the use of pen and paper, learning can be enhanced twice, if not thrice.

“Put it in writing,” goes a saying. Yes, even only on the ground as our old folks have always done.

By the way, who has not experienced “writing love letters on the sand?” Listen to balladeer, Pat Boone, sing the song of the same title, and you know what I mean.

Or write your problems where the sea rises and ebbs, and watch how the waves erase them away. This is therapeutic, try it. ~

Part 2 - To my favorite writers
By Dr Abe V Rotor

1. To Jose Rizal:

Your enemies tried to silence you,

and curtailed your freedom;

the lamp flickers its last rays at dawn
to seal your martyrdom.

2. To Aesop:
Ah! Animals talk louder than men

though in screech, crow and bleat;

yet by moral and sanity, speak
not the language on the street.

3. To Ernest Hemingway (photo)

You seemed as brave as the old man
in your great masterpiece;
the soldier, the hunter, the dreamer -
yet wanting a life of peace.

4. To Charles Darwin:
You did not give up to your critics,
who only prayed and preached;
Around the world you witnessed,
Change by random and fit.

5. To Lola Basyang (Severino Reyes)
You touched a million-and-one lives,
around campfires in their prime;
like Grimm and Anderson and Homer,
storytellers of all time. ~

6. To Boris Pasternak
Zhivago, to the end walked away alone,
from  love neither in winter nor fallow;
what romance away from the war zone,  
wrapped in doubt to sorrow's end.

7. To Mark Twain   
I am a boy forever, Tom or Huck,
down the Mississippi loafing;
and let the world go on sans care
what grownups are missing.  

8. To Robert Louis Stevenson 
"Kidnapped" made a boy into a man
too soon to face a cruel world;
learning quickly the art of war 
deceit and conceit,  gun and sword.

9. To Oscar Wilde (photo)
You're a creator of characters and events,
in novels, stories, and plays 
children and adults alike on the armchair
live in those times and places. 

10. To Arthur Conan Doyle
"Sherlock Holmes" lives to this day,
idol of any detective;
"The Lost World" remains of the past,
is back in our midst to live.     

Happy House Guests

 Happy House Guests

Living with Nature Center

San Vicente Ilocos Sur 

Dr Abe V Rotor

"The sweetest words in the English language are: 

 'Welcome. Make yourself at home.'" — Author Unknown

Tourism coordinators and team leaders pay a joyous visit to the Center.  

  Basi wine tasting session, a sip or two, 

   takes us back to the origin of this brew,

distinctly in the region of the Ilocano,

       and no other place, unless you know. - avr

At the boundary of mural art and garden

A happy company at the end of the day,

how we all wish for more time to stay.

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest." 

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Conversation with the endangered deer*

We understand your message 

as you hang lonely on the wall;

to meet your kins in the wild

and save them from the Fall.

* Visayan spotted deer and the Calamian deer in the Philippines

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 Home library and archive; basi wine cellar

Memorabilia alive, a drop of tear;

reminiscence conquers our fear. 

"Without archives, many stories would be lost, and the voices 

of the past would be silenced forever." – Sara Sheridan

 

Art gallery, Apo Resurrecion icon

Art - talent and faith,

skill and piety,

joy and reverence,

sublime humility.

Welcome to our ancestral home

Happiness is one commodity;

divide, it will multiply;

share, it grows far and wide

timeless and free. 

"To invite a person to your house is to take charge of his happiness 

as long as he be beneath your roof." — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

 

 

Archives and exhibits

Sling shot, fishing rod, bird trap;

that was a long time ago, we say,

many habagat and amihan since;

 boyhood never dies, we pray.

 

"Archives are the records of everyday life. They are the stories of us." – Unknown

   

House guests take a break

Children and grownups wish to be 

under the breezy shade of a tree, 

paint on-the-spot nature's scenery,

in silence, peace and harmony. 

"Relax, recharge and reflect. Sometimes it’s okay to do nothing." — Unknown

Artworks from Driftwood and Rocks (Scientific Specimens, Decoration and Teaching Aids)

Artworks from Driftwood and Rocks

(Scientific Specimens, Decoration and Teaching Aids)

On display at the Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Dr Abe V Rotor

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~Albert Einstein

 

Driftwood, tree skeleton short of fossilization, 

 nature pleading for help from human destruction. 

 

  

Christmas tree version in deep philosophy,

touches man's concept of faith and liberty.  

 

Dodo*, the extinct duck long time ago

lives in driftwood for us to know.

*The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic 

to Mauritius, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

 

Dragons represent today's living species,

descendants or proofs of their existence.

 

 

 

Wood, shells and rocks blend

into artwork of an amateur;

reminds us all of a message -

a trophy of dying nature.   

 

 

Metamorphism - let me count the ways:

graphite to diamond, limestone to marble, 

sandstone to quartzite, basalt to Greenschist,

shale to schist or gneiss, resin to amber.

  

Rock crumbles ultimately into soil,

 a geologic and biologic process,

 nature's perpetual cycle in action,

non-living to living and back, 

ad infinitum 

 

Apparition of Mother Nature in our times. 

"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."- Lori McNee ~