Originals - Poem and concept art

2. Ergonomics and Earthly Delights
My world is dominated by austerity and logic.
Is it the computer, or am I inclined that way by nature?
The sleek brushed-chrome-and-black tools of technology are cold and severe
efficiently un-humanlike.
There are times when I know I am lost in an artificial world,
an observer whose window is the computer monitor.
At the same time, the world into which I peer is magical, and it draws me in with
the allure of discovery.
I might never have discovered that something is lost
on this side of a computer monitor, were it not for
the contrast of natural beauty.
Fascination and exploration engage my mind, but the exercise, while fruitful,
will never produce anything as beautiful as a simple cloudless day in the mountains of
Colorado.
The wonder of computers is not in what they bring to us, or what can be done with them.
The wonder is
the potential for transformation of the inner person,
a natural being.
Alone and deep in the e-world,
we find ourselves free to travel where we will.
We think it, and with a click of the finger, we go there.
We discover what it is that takes

3. our lone hearts beyond the confines of the real world –
into the infinite of our own thoughts.
I returned
and saw a pretty little table lamp
nestled between austerity and logic.
It was a sign
of the person I alone discovered existed;
a being that,
like the lamp and
like wings on a man,
bears no resemblance to its
neat surroundings of
necessity and conformity.
Elizabeth Martin
December 19, 2011