Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Growing up on the Uplands: Imagination and Reason - Bridge of Child and Man
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature School on Blog Paaralang Bayan.sa Himpapawid (School on Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio 738 KHz AM 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Details of a mural The Uplands. San Vicente, Ilocos Sur residence
c 2000
Many years ago when the world was young
in the heart and mind;
when the uplands and hills and mountains,
were a world not really apart;
the sky was never empty of faces and birds flying,
the biggest screen of art;
rills grew into stream, the river flowed to sea,
in a system, each one a part;
in game and war the slingshot was companion,
a skillfully made craft;
trees were in storeys, the tallest were high rise,
trails were avenues at the start;
ponds grew in habagat and shrunk in amihan
leaving a natural fish trap;
camping was under trees, stove of three stones,
cariton a sort of truck;
barefoot to feel the earth, defied cut and thorn,
gravel, silt or muck;
trophy was the hunted dalag or hito or gurami,
or humbly some berry or nut;
knowledge grew into skill, into art and adventure,
the ultimate test and mark;
imagination and reason, bridge of child and man,
life's reality a new start. ~
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