May 30, 2008

Reality Check

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Photos by Mike Hall

Reality Check

During the Christmas holiday season, some towns install life-like carolers near or at normal size of humans.  That’s good, but by January, they are gone. In Carmel, Indiana in the art district, three similar statues in size are permanent.  They are not war heroes mounted on cement pedestals, or important community leaders in monochromatic bronze sitting at eye level.

These three figures are everyday people created in 2006  by J. Seward Johnson  for the Sculpture Foundation , include a woman with a bag of groceries, a man reading a newspaper while resting on a bench, and a child watering a patch of real flowers. Well away from car traffic, these colorful statues on the sidewalk could be real people, except that the woman will never get to her car or walk home, the man will never finish reading the same paper over and over, and the child will never finish his care of the flowers.  They are merely obstacles to avoid to oblivious pedestrians, but there is more who wonder and have a reality check.

Unlike their seasonal cousins, these permanent people could have real feelings.  Do they get cold in the snow or hot in the summer sun?  Could they see what is going on around them or hear the bit and pieces of conversations from the humans that pass them?  At night do they come to life and move around the area only to become the standard pose in the light?

Perhaps they are made with sensors that can “see” and ”hear” for real with radio frequency monitors relaying the information to someone in a the back of some store in the area? Could they really come to life at some point?  Carry this questioning to other “real” things and discoveries are made. People learn that the earth revolves around the sun, and that it is possible to go to the moon and come back. People live beneath the water in nuclear submarines.  There are questions that need to be asked to create a reality check.

May 21, 2008

Memorial Day Tribute

Filed under: New Poems, Figments of my Reality — admin @ 3:44 pm
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Memorial Day Tribute

Memorial Day is coming up soon, and I wrote a poem that would be a tribute to those who were injuried in the heat of battle or the result of conflict in any of the wars fought by U.S. servicemen, including those who are returning ffrom the Middle East.  No pictures are really necessary here, because most people have a relative in their family in this situation.  If not, that family is lucky or they have experienced the pain of laying a soldier to a final resting place.

Wounded Soldier

I don’t fit in my Army uniform any more.
It’s been a long time since I served in war.
I wheel my chair to get through the door.
I’m sure I could get a new uniform, if I tried,
And I’m sure it would still show my pride.
I’d hold my Purple Heart in my hand tight
For those who did not survive the fight.

May 14, 2008

One Another

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One Another

Sometimes I feel I must be living someone else’s life, because I have these stories that come to my head, and they have no relevance to what is directly happening in my life.  This is how many of my poems are created, and the resolution, or partial resolution of the situations involved in these “lives” is explained in a poem. 

For the poem, “One Another,” two people meet after what seems a lifetime since their last meeting in their youth. Then a boy, a man recalls when an a political election, he is attracted to a girl, who belongs to the opposite political party he was raised to respect.

In fairness, both attended rallies for each other’s presidential candidate after they started dating.  Like the Capulets and Montatgues, this modern Romeo and Juliet lived in different worlds and parts of town.  The relationship is not encouraged by either of their families, and after graduation from high school, the couple split up.  he goes into the military and then vocational school to learn a trade to make a living.  She goes on to college, majors in business, and becomes part of her father’s business whichc is eventually sold for high profit. Her parents retire, and the woman begins her own business with the financial and emotional support of her parents.  She becomes a great success, and another election rolls around.

By coincidence, the man’s services are needed in the expansion of the woman’s business, and they are together again for a mutual business meeting.  They remember the politics of the candidates they supported and how not much has changed. 

They get around to the current business at hand and leave knowing they could never have been romantically together.  She married, had several children and got divorced.  One  of her sons died in a foreign war. He married another woman who gave him three sons before she died in an auto accident. He has not recovered from the loss.

Even though never married, these two people have much in common, and depend on one another.

One Another

Somewhere, somehow, altogether
We are related to each other,
Friend or lover, sister or brother,
And must get along with one another.
We should also love our mothers,
For we would not exist without them.
One earth, one life, are all part of God’s
One plan for salvation through Christ.
In spirit we have but one Father, who
Created this world and the universe.
His praises are in songs and verse,
Fighting the doom of evil’s curse.
War’s spoils feed the devil’s purse
And hate only makes matter worse.
Somewhere, somehow, altogether
We are related to each other,
Friend or lover, sister or brother,
And must get along with one another.

May 12, 2008

The Needle of Life

Filed under: New Poems, Color My World — admin @ 7:22 pm

The Needle of Life

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The Needle of Life 

Thread the needle of life
spun with the thread of love,
and you will stitch together
a warm quilt of happiness
from colorful patches of
many memories.

May 9, 2008

More Indiana wildfowers

Filed under: New Poems, Freeze Frame photography gallery — admin @ 5:03 pm

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Photos by Mike Hall

With the month of May fast becoming history, a few Indiana wildflowers still remain before those charged with lawn care cut the plants down to size. The best way to preserve them is through digital photographs. A new extended version of the Indiana Wildflower video, including these photos, has been created with a background of  natural bird songs. To get this special version, not on You Tube, send an e-mail to contact@eliastobias.net.

May 4, 2008

Freeze Frame

Filed under: New Poems, Freeze Frame photography gallery — admin @ 10:27 pm

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This weekend, a rabbit stopped by the front door of the apartment building, and nibbled on leaves from a small bush before it scampered to another location. The  wild rabbit was hard to see at first since it blended with the mulch, but it moved.I didn’t bother to chase it, since it was probably scared of me.  I had my image, and that was enough.

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