NATURE Paintings with Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

TOO SOON THE BUD OPENS

Painting in acrylic (12" x 17")

You come in springtime and autumn, 

    too eager a bud  ahead of your time; 

what promise of life awaits tomorrow

    from where you've broken through?

Whichever path you take from now,

    you'll miss the adventure of youth 

in summer, and stillness of winter,

    Oh, how could you live to the full?  

"For having lost but once your prime,

    you'll always tarry," so says a poet;

"It's now or never," so sings a bard,

    and I, I've neither a poem nor a song.

A HEART ON THE WALL

Painting in acrylic (16.5" x 18")

Oh, heart on the wall

     do you still feel?

Do you still throb -

     the throb of love?

Ivy, ivy on the wall,

     don't hide 

     a living heart.

GRASS  

Painting in acrylic (18" x 21")   

Sway with the breeze,

     dance with the wind;

         Greet the sun with dewdrops

     clinging;

In summer turn golden, 

     and bow,

And die sweetly to feed 

     the world. 

A LOVELY PAIR IN A BOWER

 Painting in acrylic (11.5" X 16") 

 

                                              

                                 Let the world go by in their bower, 

lovers blind to the busy world,

away from the maddening crowd; 

fleeting moment is forever, 

to this pair in their lair.

Wonder in our midst who we are,

blind to each other, but the world,

strange this crowd we are in;

where's this lovely pair, 

where's their bower?    

SYMBIOSIS

Pisces and Echinoderms 

Painting in acrylic (8" X 10") 

Distant in phylogeny, yet live they together

in one community we call ecology,

ever since the beginning of our living world,

millions of years ago before man was born

to rule, to reign supreme over all creation; 

wonder what Homo sapiens means 

to true peace and harmony 

beyond his rationality.  

SEA URCHIN

Painting in acrylic ( 11"  x  13.5") 

You're all made of spikes,

     I can't see the real you;

in your invincible armor

     in any view. 

Wonder how many of us

     live like the urchin

in silent, unknown ways

     and never seen.

SECRET OF THE HEART

Painting in Acrylic (13.5" x 13.5")

Hidden, the heart throbs

     in deep silence;

two nails embedded,

     unseen in pretence

of living, loving, caring,

     the highest art, 

filling the five chambers

     of the heart.  

INNOCENCE IN NATURE

Painting in acrylic (17.5" x 21.75") 

Abstract over realism can you paint innocence,

     move over classics, you are too pure

to be true, and impressionism too assuming,

     with apologies to Monet's azure sky.  

Oh! abstract indeed is a child's innocence,

     buds in early spring, grains ripening;

heart of a true friend, pledge of real love,

     growing in the passing of time. 

Colors are mere symbols, wanting to behold,

     the magnificence of mind and heart,

triumph of the human spirit over our frailty,

     the most challenging of all art.~      

   

ART OF THE CATERPILLAR

Painting in acrylic (11” x 14”)

Caterpillar, when you are gone

two things come to mind:

the butterfly you have become,

and the damage you have done
and left behind.

Art, art, whatever way defined,

the subject on the wall,

or dripping on the floor,

art, art you aren't hard to find
after all. ~

WEANING

Painting in acrylic (8” x 10”)

A trio in adventure weaned out

     of their nest too soon;

to explore the world beyond,

     like the Prodigal Son.

What lies in the deep and dark

     cavern with many eyes,

but monsters real or imagined

     lurking for a prize.

It’s inevitable stage of life,

     all creatures undergo;

weaning - crossing the bridge

     and cutting it, too.

FISH SWARMING           

          Painting in acrylic (9” x 17”)

 

I’ve seen jellyfish swarming,

Plankton in coral reefs glowing;

a myriad fireflies mingling

with the stars, linking us all

to a Supreme Being. ~