Communion with Nature - Ten Ways

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Parakeets, Safari World, Thailand

Lovely, friendly -  kindest words ever be,

whereas their kin are wild and free;

lucky in man's judgment these pair  may be

if only we understand their plea

for freedom to the wild, to their ancestry

and away from the artificial tree.  
  

Tamboili shells, former St. Paul Museum

I'm standing on the world's narrowest isthmus,

among archives and fossils of history,

where I can hold the Pacific and the Atlantic

oceans half the world apart and free;

I cross the time and distance barrier

with these chroniclers singing to me

the unending roars of the tides,

tides on the street, tides of the sea.

Sunken Pier, Puerto, Sto. Domingo, Ilocos Sur

Behold! a jellyfish as looking glass

unfolds a third world scene:

half terrestrial, half aquatic,

solid and liquid in between,

third matter in colloidal form -

strange the world is ever seen. 

Baby sitting: Fluppy, angora rabbit at home

Here is seeing the world in dreams;

half awake, half asleep,

on two planes -  fantasy and reality,

rather than counting sheep,

to unload life's burden at the end of day -

a heaven sent li'l rabbit.

 

Rare walking stick insects, Museum of Natural History,

UPLB Laguna

Dragons in fairy tales and religious fictions -

they are fierce, they're enemies of mankind;

in fossils and movies they scare the children;

little do we think of them friendly and kind,

devouring pests, singing lullaby in dull air;

misjudged, they're harder and harder to find.

  

Baby orangutan, Avilon Zoo, San Mateo, Rizal

Monkey on my back, that's what people say

when what we say logic we lack;

genes may vary, yet the same to this day,

indeed, a monkey on our back.

  

Viewing telescope, Mall of Asia, Pasay Metro Manila

Yes, creatures but man, are getting fewer, farther apart;

changing the old game with art of glass and steel;

where you can't get near, when you can't touch and feel,

technology comes to fill, yet empty still. 

 Red shelf mushrooms, Sacred Heart Novitiate, QC

Flaming red in the night and in bright light -
what secret have you Ganoderma? 
and yet your light cannot make the dead rise
again, the tree felled by cold heart,
lying unknown and forgotten in its demise.

Crustose lichen on a tree trunk, Silang Cavite 

Crust blankets the tree with powdery green,

 strange indeed to the inquisitive, 

that this is a model of symbiosis,  

for tree and lichen together they live.  

Violin and aquarium fish, Don Antonio Heights 2, Diliman, QC  

Music is universal - that is worthy of praise,
 to all creatures the "Mozart Effect"
that brings us all together in work and ease,
friend and foe, master and subject,
sans division and color in war and peace.

Lesson on defunct Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) 738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday