Mossy Forest

Mossy Forest

Dr Abe V Rotor

Professor Rudy Del Rosario leads study group from the UST 

Graduate School. Photo taken by the author on Mt Pulog, 

Benguet, circa 1985

Atop the gusty mountain

the mossy trees lie buried in cloud,

growing at the pace of the bonsai,

never bothered by time and space,

their gnarled branches, the wings

over countless lowly creatures,

the mountain and the world

in abiding care.

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods, 1995 Megabooks