Yes, you can be a poet! Here are simple verses.

Yes, you can be a poet!

Here are simple verses.

"... and if one day the water of the sea is not enough,

drink, drink deep from my little cup."

Dr Abe V Rotor

1. Mayon Volcano

Mayon Volcano, Legaspi Albay

Tranquility reigns on her face, rage in her breast,

If beauty exudes best from a spring of force,

I do not wonder at the shyness of a crest,

And the power of a single rose.

 2. Foot Bridge

            
                               Wooden Footbridge Internet

I walked the bridge to its far end and beyond,

And down the river to the sea I cast my pole.

It was a fight I fought, it was no longer game,

And it was neither fish nor dream I caught.

3. Artisan
          I touched the towering figure and I was touched,

Transported to Gulliver’s land for a moment;

To meet the maker, a simple man from the hills,

Unschooled, yet his burin sings of glorious Greece.

4. Gulliver

Pygmies make giants, for the little man dreams of what

     he misses.

Humble is he, painstakingly working on his stead,

Until a Genie rises from his hands, mirror of a

    great soul.

Lo, a pupil I am, doubting my skill, my goal.

5. Children of Nature

Summer’s short, rainy days are long,

And so brief is this imagery;

The young can’t wait, and all along

The scene a blissful memory.

6. A happy lot

For just once the world is mine

With rowdy friends and I,

Happily with a jug of wine,

Words come easy, ‘Aye, Aye!’ ”

7.The other side of progress

                    

                              Sunken Pier, San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur (AVR Photo)

Through time, humanity has changed through use

Of its environment for man’s needs through abuse,

From adaptation to modernization,

All in the name of civilization.

8. Youth

Pleasance to you youth, bright as the sun;

The world be at war or be at peace.

Ask not where have all the flowers gone;

Seasons come, and seasons go at ease.

9. Rage
                    
                                    Raging Waterfalls

 

Rage and break, rage and break,

On the cold wall and be free;

Make the sky and the river meet

Under a rainbow by the sea.

10. Drink from my little cup

Rise up from the sea and come down as rain;

rise, rise up and be weaned, to be free;

and if one day the water of the sea is not enough,

drink, drink deep from my little cup.

Acknowledgement: Internet Photos 

References 

Don’t Cut the Trees, Don’t
Copyright 2010 Abercio V Rotor and University of Santo Tomas, 206 pp

Philippine Literature Today
Copyright 2015 by C & E Publishing, Inc 237 pp
Abercio V Rotor and Kristine Molina-Doria