A Travelogue on a Wall Mural of Nature

A Travelogue on a Wall Mural of Nature 

Make believe scene but it exists outside the wall; 

don't delay, go find it to where it truly lies 

before the cruel hand takes its toll

in the name of progress in disguise.

Photos and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Queenie 8. poses before a wall mural painted by the author 

at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente Ilocos Sur.

Make believe scene but it exists outside the wall;

go find it to where it truly lies; 

don't delay before the cruel hand takes its toll

in the name of progress in disguise. 

Overlooking the Underground River in Puerto Princesa, Palawan

It's A River of No Return, as the old song goes.  

But to where does it go, where does it end?

Would it ever find time along the way to pause? 

It tells, we all pass this way but once, my friend.

Queenie In the midst of a tropical rainforest

If ever there's a semblance of Milton's Paradise 
Lost and Regained here on  Earth,
it's the rainforest biome in diversity and size,
greatly reduced  to a dearth. 

Yawning crevice, Pinsal Falls (Sta Maria, Ilocos Sur) in summer.

What is beauty is indeed abstract in any definition,
even a weathered cliff foretelling its demise
is beautiful: dry in summer, rampaging in monsoon;
it's the same to the innocent or to the wise.  

Hundred Islands (Alaminos, Pangasinan)

Sitting on one of the islands makes her a Gulliver
in Lilliput as they appear from the air
like gems strewn over, but would they last forever?
It doesn't matter to the lovely and fair. ~