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.