Beautiful Nature
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads"
—Henry David Thoreau
Dr Abe V Rotor
Kapok (Ceiba pentndra), UP Diliman QC, photo by author
Towering Tree
You touch the cloud
And cause rain to fall,
You bar wind and flood,
Sing with the waterfall,
But once you are bald,
Death comes to all.
Author's grandchildren enjoy drawing water with a hand pump.
Where there is a well, there is curiosity,
where there's curiosity, there is will (well).
Low Tide
You are alone at your lowest ebb,
At low tide the sea reveals her shore
That bathes under the sun to its edge,
Go to the sea and learn its chore.
Mural in the Garden, AV Rotor, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
Buds and Butterflies
I wait for your bloom
Every tick of the clock,
It is better to be soon
than lose my luck.
Fluttering butterflies
will not come back.
Bamboo in Summer
Without your feathery gown
In which we seek fun and cover,
And wait for the sun to go down,
We know summer is over.
Boy on a Tree
A tree is meant for a boy in summer
That seasons until the "twelfth of never",
He will through life always remember
The most precious thing is a boy forever.
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus
to see the light." - Aristotle
"We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow
it from our children." —Native American proverb
Acknowledgement: Internet photos (as indicated); verses from Nymphaea:
Beauty in the Morning by A.V. Rotor, A Giraffe Book 1996
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