A Driftwood's Odyssey

  A Driftwood's Odyssey

Dr Abe V Rotor

San Vicente Integrated School coed, Miss Riyzza Mae Rotor Carbonel, shows her school project - a table vase made of driftwood, seashells, and recycled plastic materials.

I am a remnant of a felled tree in a forest long ago,

drifting down the river to the sea;

braving the elements and patient with time, too;

 free but knowing not my destiny. 

For how long I drifted far and wide I do not know,

my world was aimless and carefree

 among creatures I met, that would come and go. 

but to whom can I tell this long story?

Until the tides took me one day into another view,

to where trees stood happy once like me,

where people brought back old memories anew;

but I am now but a waste of the sea. 

Until a curious lass took me for something new,

something for the arts, not for money;

but some kind of beauty in my ugliness to show

 Nature's hidden artistic quality. ~

Main face of the driftwood vase

Views of the driftwood vase in perspective variations. ~