Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Adventure in Nature

Adventure in Nature 
Acrylic on Wood (48” x 48”) 
By Dr Abe V Rotor

Adventure in Nature, Acrylic on Wood (48” x 48”) AVRotor 2020

“A thing of beauty is a boy forever,” they say.

It’s true. The boy lives in the man all his life;

The joys of adventure remain fresh every day,

Distilled in courage to go on even in strife.

 

Nature - greatest teacher, guardian, friend,

Rolled in one – she’s all around all the time.

Faithful, true to the adventurer to the end,

To the boy in man, in any calling and clime. ~


               Details of painting 

 
Fishing tests skill, but more of patience, forging the stream;
the prize a big fish, but bigger an idea, and biggest a dream.

A family of parakeets, procreation and instinct in their finest;
envy of humans, aiming at perfecting the art, their greatest test. 
    
 
A kaleidoscope of butterflies fluttering, 
 paints the cliff into living sceneries:
the rainbow over the hills,
  Christmas in the trees. 


Scale the mountain, not for its height,
but ones courage put to test;
 adventure into a search for meaning
of life, into ones very best.   

    

The sailboats go with the wind,
their keels set the way;
wonder where we go hereafter,
at the end of the day.



Courtesy of Eighten and Job Rotor, 7 and 2 years old, to whom this painting is dedicated, a gift of the author, they fondly call Lolo Abe.  The painting graces their home in Barangay Rugsuanan, Vigan City.

 

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