Beautiful Nature: "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads" - Henry David Thoreau

                                                    Beautiful Nature 

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads" 

—Henry David Thoreau

Dr Abe V Rotor

1. Low Tide

Floor-Wall-Ceiling mural by AV Rotor, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

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.

2. Well Spring

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).

3. "A boy is forever."

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.

4. Towering Cotton Tree

Kapok (Ceiba pentndra), UP Diliman QC, photo by author

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.

5. Buds and Butterflies

Mural in the Garden, AV Rotor, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

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.

 

6. Bamboo in Summer

Golden bamboo grove Internet

Without your feathery gown

In which we seek fun and cover,

And wait for the sun to go down,

We know summer is over.

"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