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.