Morning Calm in a Forest

Morning Calm in a Forest

Verses and Painting by Dr Abe V Rotor

Morning Calm in a Forest evokes a feeling of peace and serenity in nature, characterized by fresh air, soft light, birdsong, passing breeze, and the sound of silence itself. It is a piece of the lost Eden, regained by those who truly love and care for the environment, and find peace and harmony with Nature.  

Morning Calm in a Forest in acrylic on canvas, 20"x28" 2025

"Birds sing not only for their own kind,

but to the world that shares their joy,

in melodies notes may not capture,

but the heart and spirit they buoy.

Lovely parrots perched up on trees,

higher than the flight of butterfly;

lo! to many a passerby aimlessly 

just let the world go by with a sigh." - AVR

"Staccato of chirping meets the breeze and sunrise,

 waking the butterflies, unveiled by the rising mist;

 rush the stream where fish play with the sunbeam,

 and the rainforest opens, a stage no one could miss, 

 with every creature in a role to play without cease." - AVR

  

"John Milton wrote his masterpiece of Paradise,

while Beethoven composed sonata with ecstasy;

Jean Fabre and Edwin Teale with probing lens

discovered a world Jules Verne wrote in fantasy,

real in Aldo Leopold’s ecosystem unity." - AVR

 

Heritage trees rise through the canopy,

Living towers of the forest;

Divine columns of Nature's Parthenon,

Cradle of harmony and rest.

Seat of evolution and biodiversity

Tales of the forest, queer but true,

Challenge to games and inquiry,

Man's first home, Genesis' final view.

 “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden