Meditation on Modern Art and Living

Meditation on Modern Art and Living

Dr Abe V Rotor

 National Food Authority Manager Leny O Senedrin takes a break from office work
in silence and meditation at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur 2019 

Before the day takes its toll from tension and stress, 
take heed of the natural clock, the cycle of living;
listen to the birds returning to their roost in the trees,
the fiddling music of crickets, gentle breeze passing.

Before the sun turns golden, crimson in its final hour,
footsteps grow louder and louder, and deafening
with riotous noise that deadens the bell from the tower;
Angelus, but how many would care about praying?

Our way of living is governed by a noosphere beyond
our control; our will defeated into submission;
globalization encompassing, individualism long gone;  
cybergod changing the concept of man and nation. 

Postmodernism is "living today tomorrow" a quagmire;
gone is our freedom  to keep track of our dream,
keep our privacy, live in peace and harmony as we desire;
if this is the prize of progress, then it is but its cream.

Change - chartless, drifting, accelerating - sans destiny;
hold on Something of Value, Hope for the Flowers;
novelists Ruark and Paulus tell us to live and be happy,
in silence and song, in tears that bring in the showers.
  
Meditate on modern art, put back the pieces together,  
from the Lascaux cave to abstract of today's artists; 
roll back the time as you would trace the road back home;     
and you'll experience a deep sense of catharsis.

Before the day takes its toll from tension and stress, 
take heed of the natural clock, the cycle of living;
listen to the birds returning to their roost in the trees,
the fiddling music of crickets, gentle breeze passing. ~