Do you believe in tree spirit?

 Do you believe in tree spirit?

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature - School on Blog (avrotor.blogspot.com) 

Also open Naturalism -the Eighth Sense

 Children playing at the edge of a forest in acrylic by the author

Call the kapre, dwende, tikbalang

    to scare or just for fun;

call goddess Maria Makiling,

    and Helios, the sun;

Imagine the world without them

    - without them around.

Children wouldn't be home before dark;

and dogs at night wouldn't bark.

why sunflowers always face the sun,

and go to sleep when gone,

trespasser, beware, take the road instead,

else on some spirit you might tread;

over the hills and valleys thunder rolls

when angry Thor growls;

and mushroom spontaneously appear

breaking the ground like spear;

phosphorescence fascinates us, 

after the fire has gone into ash;

look up they're but one - fireflies and stars,

fireflies are the missing stars;

holiest is the altar of nature unspoiled,

where logging was foiled,

where the kapre lives in big trees,

and scares with a sudden breeze;

paddies sigh, bamboos creak and whisper,

unseen - creatures or not - slither.

The world is alive with tales and legends;

    untrue yet true, for they are a twin;

and if you pass by a tree, stop and listen

    to the spirit that throbs within. ~

 

Children Camping by a Forest Stream in acrylic by the author