Echoes on Lake Tikob

 Echoes on Lake Tikob

Dr Abe V Rotor

Lake Tikob, Tiaong, Quezon.  Photo by the author circa 1993

Note flowering Madre de cacao (Gliricida sepium) on the ridge

of the crater lake, which usually occurs in summer. 

It is here where I want to stay,

On some bejeweled mountain tops,

Where my voice dies down the valley.

Somewhere before the lake it stops.

Where dark clouds gather and glitter,

Like arms raised against the sky

Or giants who rise and scare,

But into wispy feathers die.

I hear the singing of the angels,

As the winds weave through the green,

And brush my face with a thousand needles,

To feel the touch of a hand unseen.

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods 1995 Megabooks