Take a Break with Nature

Take a Break with Nature

Dr Abe V Rotor 

 Flowers of macopa (Eugenia jambalana), TechnoHub, QC

From flowers meek and dull

to red, red fruits after,

transition beyond the eye

to trace and compare.

Siesta on a tree hammock, UST Manila

The hammock does not rock

and sway in cantabile',

yet takes you to the clouds,

and your troubles away.

 Aerial tubers of Dioscorea sp make a crown - and a clown. Don Antonio Heights 2, QC 

What do you know - 

roots growing tubers in the air

from a frail vine

instead from a large tree!

I wouldn't ask why

if this is indeed divine.   

Forest diorama on Mt Makiling, UPLB, Laguna

A forest in a forest in replica,

reminder of man's folly;

when diorama is all that's left,

and only archives to stay.    

   

Author's grandchildren stroll at the orchard of their family residence

 in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur 

Nature links the generations through the trees 

planted many, many years ago;

for which they are regarded heritage trees, 

living monuments of a kind lolo.*

                                          * grandfather