My Best Photographs Series: The Art of Leisure with Nature

My Best Photographs Series

 The Art of Leisure with Nature

Dr Abe V Rotor

Anna wears a butterfly, Bohol 

Take the backseat jewelry, 

how costly you may be;

priceless indeed is to wear

Nature's living luxury.

 

Floor-to-wall mural by the author

 Living with Nature Center

A make-believe scene of the sea

in its ebb at its rugged shore,

a place to be happy and free

for two friends in their leisure.

Parakeets in courtship, LNC 

Don't disturb the couple, don't;

if you were in their place

as people onto you, won't;

instead, give them solace.

Head of a deer reconstructed, LNC

Angry and scared for both,

as a deer hangs on the wall;

it's a sad message in thought,

a reminder of the Fall.

 

Catching the sunbeam on a mural, Lagro QC

It's a dream world to this child;

to us, in art and fantasy.

Would she ever catch her dream? 

Guide her to the true story.

Playing with the waterfall on a mural, LNC

She used to play with the falls

in situ in her younger days. 

Today, by reminiscence,

in thanksgiving and praise.

Posing before a wall mural of nature, Lagro QC

"I 'm part of Nature." she proclaims,

in a city where she lives.

Seldom had she the time and chance

to take what Nature freely gives.

Gagambang Hari, Lagro QC

Its kingdom of this spider

- a web hanging in the air,

to snare the unwary prey

- or to birds, itself the prey

  

Orangutan in a zoo, Rizal 

Friendly primate, its roots unknown,

forgotten to oblivion,

save in the wild and the zoo, 

and some undiscovered zone.

Two of a kind pets, Brisbane 

Submission to the larger

kind, a Darwinian theory,

even within the same breed,

is basic biology.

B&W ducks on parade, LNC

Quack, quack, quack, one-two three,

keep pace with their company. 

Ducks of the same feathers

flock together, is true story.

Owl in captivity, La Union Botanical Garden

Owl - longingly sad and lo!

 Freedom is just a step or two

and be with its kind again.

Oh, what can we do, brethren!

Black cat by a waterfall mural, LNC

Complete the scene, break the spell,

that bad luck and emptiness 

are but creation of the mind.

You're a sentinel of goodness.~