Animals light up our world

 Animals light up our world 

"Animals are a blessing to God's creation. He created them to assist mankind in many ways." - John Stange, What is Heaven Really Like?

Dr Abe V Rotor

"Fly me to the moon" on a sled. San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

A sled on to the moon,

     airplane and ship aboard;

a travelogue for kids

     to conquer the world.

Lakeside leisure at UP-Ayala Park, QC

Strolling by the pond she's greeted  

     with quaint sound and stare;

a member she soon felt in return 

     to some crumbs to share. 

Babysitting with aquarium fish, Lagro, QC

Can fish sing lullaby, too?

     Oh, how I wish they do, 

and be babysitters too,

    for baby and fish in duo.  

     

Job well done, indeed. QC   

This faithful errant though over eager,

      his job done just too well;

to earn admiration from his master

     to say, all's well at the end. 

Greeting a boar in its pen. Baliwag, Bulacan. 

Greeting a boar in its pen,

     a wall away to the open:

freedom and duty,

     fate and destiny.  

A friendly pigeon, San Pablo, Laguna

A wild pigeon submits to friendship

     but briefly in a cage;

freedom she seeks by an ancient gene

     that will never age.   

Girl passes a herd of carabaos basking in Guiginto, Bulacan

An errand walks by a carabao herd

      on lazy stream and hour;

a bread she carries for her grandmother;

      fairy tale is true after all. 

Composite cartoon characters of animals.  QC 

Animae, triumph of art and technology,

     birth of many a queer specie(s);

biodiversity of imagination and fantasy,

    enigma of truth and reality.

King Kong, false image of the kind, 

     shy and the sublime animal,

misunderstood by evolution 

     for not being rational. 

Resurrection from Armageddon

     from poison and waste it hid,

this ba-ug frog a prodigal son 

     of man's folly and greed.

A new world bigger than their shell they greet,

     yet shrink and hide in it,

not when alone and happy, or abandoned

     but when failed to compete. 

 

A living factory works under our feet,

     its product glistens in the rising sun:

detritus for the garden and farm.

     Who really has the Green Thumb?

Hug a bunny when the sky's gray,

     or at the end of a hard day;

Talk to her, she can understand

  more than those in a band. 

Where skill above risk builds confidence,

     takes the two to places they go;

What kinship master and pet do make, 

     heads turning to admire and to awe. ~