Verses, Verses, Verses

Verses, Verses, Verses

Dr Abe V Rotor

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" 

This line has been spoken by Ulysses in the third act of Troilus and Cressida 

written by William Shakespeare.

1.  Symbiosis

Pisces and Echinoderms in acrylic (8" X 10")

Distant in phylogeny, yet live they together

in one community we call ecology,

ever since the beginning of our living world,

millions of years ago before man was born

to rule, to reign supreme over all creation;

wonder what Homo sapiens means

to true peace and harmony

beyond his rationality.

2. Bouquet

            Bouquet in acrylic, AVR 

Bouquet - how extreme:

how happy, how sad,

how deceitful, how holy,

how tame, how mad!

Bouquet - how fresh,

picked for vase or lei;

how withered when gone

across the bay.

Bouquet - how fragrant

across the hall;

how lavish in summer,

how dearth in fall.

Bouquet - how missed

the bee, the butterfly

in the garden, the rainbow

an arch of sigh.~

3.  Phosphorescent Caterpillars

Caterpillars eating the leaves of ilang-ilang (Cananga

 odorata), at home near La Mesa watershed.

        They came - an army of hungry glowing worms,

             on a sunset on a tall ilang-ilang tree;

        there they hang like lanterns or neon far away,

             and in crepuscular light there I could see

        a familiar tree traced by its essence in the air,

             and now by the phosphorescence from this tree -

        Christmas ahead and beyond yet here at hand,

             by the glow of these worms reminds of Thee;

        through nature's ways to guard the frail and lowly

             through the secret of ephemeral beauty. ~

                                           4. Invisible Wall

                            

Aquarium pet and a Butterfly, At Home, Lagro QC 

Fish to butterfly danger in the open

     harmless between a wall; 

Humans behave like friend to friend 

     between an invisible wall. 

5. The Cost of Beauty

Long horned grasshoppers or katydid (Phaneroptera furcifera) 

feeding on the flower of balibago (Hibicus tilaceus). 

You share the beauty of your host - 

and beauty itself  the cost. ~