Palette Board Speaks of Neo-Darwinism Evolution of Life

Palette Board Speaks of Neo-Darwinism Evolution of Life 

Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

 Coral reef of deceiving beauty, 

red for warning, black for death;

white as skeleton; blue-green, 

invasion of the primitive scum

that once ruled the earth.  

Speleology and tourism, what a combination;

though both exploit the secrets of the past,  

trace the beginning of human's civilization,

and Plato's allegory of the escaped outcast.    

 Linnaeus, if alive today, would wonder, 

how he missed in his study 

organisms posthumously emerged  

from science and technology.  

If you can decipher what life forms these are, 

you must be an artist, like Picasso or Matisse,

masters of abstract art - not the ideal, the real, 

the form and order of God's creation remised.

Relief painting with a palette knife,

to capture a hatching egg;

take the backseat brush, the time is ripe

for freedom in art, I beg.

 Caked paint on palette board used by the author, 2016

I labored painting to the last rays of the sun, 

     and all the day's worth was gone;

on my pallete board, lo! what I have found,

     a subject never was in my mind. 

A work of art indeed but whose masterpiece?

     and i looked up to heaven to ask

what the images mean and want to convey.     

     it's our world wearing a Janus mask.~