Nature in Photography and Poetry in 16 Scenes

Nature in Photography and Poetry 

in 16 Scenes

Dr Abe V Rotor

"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it." 

- Jules Renard

It must be Pavlov's conditioned learning,

they come at the time of feeding,

and we, delighted of their friendliness

believe we are kind and loving.

In each leaf a fountain

stored from cloud and dew;

I won't thirst on my travel

even days without rain.

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." –Gary Snyder

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." 

–John Muir

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner 

of nature." –Claude Monet

Beauty begets beauty,

but only for a time;

sooner of later fades,

with its scent divine.

There's always a monkey on my back,

asleep or awake,

I lead the evolutionary track

for all creatures' sake.

What tells you this owl this hour of day?

" I can't join you at night," the owl seems to say,

"with my hunting adventures around the bay,

and you on the computer night and day."

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" –E.M. Forster

I won't pity you my friend

having reached your end,

if worth a museum piece,

to disturb man's peace.

"Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine 

are hard to beat." –Laura Ingalls Wilder

You are made of jelly, third state of matter:

colloid pulsing in the computer.

But I would rather make you a prism

in search of an unknown realm.

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet 

and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran

Let him be among the sand pipers and crustaceans;

to grow up unlike us away from sea and sun;

I wonder how we survived not having as much fun,

in modern caves, concrete jungle, always on the run.

Whiling away before a wooden frame;

sungka played wild and tame,

turns friend to fiend; to loot and burn;

all's fair in this ethnic game.

Tame, though its gene is wild;

sans its own kind in the wild,

human its master and king,

and every guest its friend -

but in a little while, one by one

until the species is gone, and lo!

the hero in the last hour,

would he himself follow.

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld

Extinct beasts come alive in our midst,

challenging faith and tradition;

seeing is believing yet how nil these are

to the realm of understanding,

a God before and now, near and far,

makes man's awe and thanksgiving.

Desert ship, the camel tame and dumb,

why of all places you have come?

is it a new wasteland that you found

from forest and pasture land?

Nothing beats the native chicken's taste,

and for the convalescing patient;

the karurayan all in immaculate white,

to the herbolario, an angel sent.

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, 

even when the people in it do.”– Andy Warhol

Who can tell a beast from a baby?

all babies though are in a bind;

and like our own it needs TLC,

orphaned from its own kind.

A baby elephant with sultry eyes

feeling the touch of a lovely lass;

for a mother's love is also weaned,

as childhood soon will pass.

Stars of the sea were once

stars in heaven that fell

to bring joy in the deep blue

which was thought as hell. ~

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life 

by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange

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