Time for Verses: Where land, sea and sky meet

Time for Verses

Where land, sea and sky meet 

Abe V Rotor

Where land and sea meet, in acrylic, AVR 2002

Hidden eyes in acrylic, AVR 2002

1. Hush, hush,
suddenly the world became still;
gone is the lark in the sky
and raven on the window sill.

2. The bamboo I cut is not really mine,
this giant grass, a reed sublime;
in the wind it rings a sweet old chime
into a song sans words and rhyme.

3. When the geese take to the air
their leader first breaks the barrier;
on the dovetail trail ride the flock
in synergy, confidence and luck.

4. A wall unseen by the other,
behind we refuse to be seen,
of what we are and what had been –
break it, and be a true brother.

5. Better the Noble Savage lived
than civilization to Mankind,
in a Garden we long envied,

sans want, war and its evil kind.

6. Look at the arrow and the bow,
the first machine before the plow;
a hunter’s life that man had ceased,
to found the land of love and peace.

7. For just once the world is mine

with rowdy friends and I,

happily with a jug of wine,

words come easy, "Aye, Aye!."

8. Kindness but without honesty -
that is sentimentality;
honesty but without kindness -
simply that is plain cruelty;
peace - that the duo must harness

to bring light to humanity.

9. Judgment isn't just conformity
that binds a class and society;
not for the rich or any sect –
but of the heart and intellect.

10. If my life's to be lived with love,
learned and shared not one but many;
through others it's this way above,
I shall have left a legacy.~