Three Images of Nature in our Postmodern World

 Three Images of Nature 

in our Postmodern World

Dr Abe V Rotor

1. Heritage Tree Remembered

 Wood shards from a heritage tree against a forest 

background AV Rotor (16” x 24.5”) 2023

I sing the dirge of the Narra and Acacia,

     heritage trees our children shall miss

at the verge of extinction like Sequoia;

     save some epitaphs and memories.

If only art can take over their absence,

     in monuments and legends they live,

but where is sanctity, what is reverence,

     what can man to his Creator give?

2. GMO Tame and Wild

  Genetically Modified Organisms In Our Midst,  AV Rotor 2023

Splicing genes of the tame and the wild,

     progeny from the laboratory;

whatever glory to pest and pet combined,

     affront to man’s rationality.

Could Pied Piper the hero come to the task,

     save us from folly, greed and remiss

for our children and their future we ask,

     before they vanish in our midst?

3. Nature's Blood 

Blood in the Forest in acrylic by AV Rotor 2023

Blood the universal symbol of victory,

     that of cruelty too, of man

against the living world throughout history;

     who praise or lament when he's gone? 

 

Not any one we know in the whole wide world,

     not among creatures big or small,

save Nature, kindly mother in her own accord,

     faithful to man ever since his Fall. ~

  “Together we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these our children.” — Chico Mendes