Part 3 - Somewhere the Rain Must Fall

 Part 3 - Somewhere the Rain Must Fall

Paintings (Parts 1, 2 & 3) are displayed at Living with Nature Center, San Vicente Ilocos Sur; posted avrotor.blogspot.com 

Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

Nature's Indigenous Art

Superstition and folklore may bear

very little truth and a lot of frenzy;

but we care for them with open ear

as they take us away to fantasy.

Silver Tree Trophy

If my life is to be lived with love,

learned and shared in one way or many;

if through others it is seen this way above, 

then I shall have truly left a legacy.

Living Rock

Ah, but what good is a rock when it misses

the essence of clay on which life itself rises.

 

Convergence

If you are gifted with fisheye vision,

treetops converge, like clouds rising ;

so with dreams, goal and ambition,

love and care - key to happy living. 

 

Thorns against the Moon

A world of thorns, a prison to the heart,

alone and grieving in pain;

yet it is but an image of a past sworn 

never to come back again. 

Fertilization

More than the stars above, within the womb,

male gametes race, only one gets the prize,

a primordial act to fertilize the waiting ovum,

indeed a miracle of how a new life rises. 

Sun beam in the deep 

To the artist all of Nature is beautiful,

from a sleeping child to aa raging bull,

comes freshness as a moon in full,

in colors warm and cool.

Nebula 

He counts every star above his own,

yet not a single seed he had sown.

Crucifix of stones with relief background

How many a resolve do we make to be humane

and yet fall, and say, we are only human.

Mosses

Mosses on the wall creeping shy and small,

spread out to hide my dark and ugly side.

Sargassum Fish

The sargassum fish, anglerfish, or frog fish is a frogfish of the family Antennariidae, the only species in its genus. It lives among Sargassum seaweed which floats in subtropical oceans. The scientific name comes from the Latin histrio meaning a stage player or actor, and refers to the fish's feeding behavior. Wikipedia

The Dove, symbol of Spirituality*

If a little in me dies if only someone must live,
here then, Lord, here is my whole life to give.

*Icon restored by the author, collection of his late brother, Eugene.