Beautiful Nature in Verses 5: "If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."

                   Beautiful Nature in Verses 5

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." 

—Laura Ingalls Wilder

Dr Abe V Rotor

Hibiscus

Photo by the author at his daughter's family home,

 Brisbane, Australia 

"I can't miss you at all in the garden,

or on some path less trodden, 

as a child in my native land then,

now in old age I'm seeing you again."

- avr  

Damsel Fly

What makes you noble, I see,

Is your frame, not scepter,

Light, strong and free

Replica of the helicopter.

Sargassum

You make a forest on the sea floor

Where the fishes hide from the storm,

What puzzles those who explore

Is your massive yet simple form.

Nymphaea in a Pond

I. too, shall kiss you

After the mist and sun,

Before I say, "Adieu,"

And your purity gone.

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." 

—Lao Tzu

Papyrus

Prototype of the quill's mate,

The scroll in Pharaoh's room,

Reveal your myth of Eden's gate

As free as the fishes roam.

Flying Fish

You swim through the sky,

Hide in the deep blue green

And climb up, up high, 

Such an illusion I've seen, 

Ends up with a puff and a sigh.

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

 —Rachel Carson

Acknowledgement: Internet photos; verses from Nymphaea: 

Beauty in the Morning by A.V. Rotor, A Giraffe Book 1996