Nature is a World of Reality and Fantasy.

 Nature is a World of Reality and Fantasy.

Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

1. Ode to a Stream on the Wall

Markus 1 (in stroller), with friends at home in Lagro QC, 2016

Flow gently, sweetly with the breeze

     and sing with the little children;

whisper with the rocks and trees,

     make every creature their friend.

Sing the songs of the forest deities,

     the cheerful crickets and birds,

lullaby of Mozart, chorus of Liszt:

    "Grow and be happy,” they urge.

 "I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." - - Anne Frank

                                  2. Mackie and the Owl

Until I captured the scary creature

     with paint brush on the wall,

where kids could talk to and touch;

     now the owl is a friend to all.

Mackie poses before a wall mural painted by the 

author at her home in Lagro QC 2015

Mackie used to be afraid of the owl,

     imagined or on the screen.

and would fling into embrace blind

     until it is no longer seen.

The creature would appear in the dark,

     in her favorite cartoon;

by its hooting in the hollow of a tree,

     she would freeze like stone.

Until I captured the scary creature

     with paint brush on the wall,

where kids could talk to and touch; 

     now the owl is a friend to all. ~

3. The World in his Paint Brush

Markus 2 author's grandson paints a mural 2015, QC

"Freedom in imagination, young as he is, while grownups yearn for expression outside the confines of art; who is the master then? Yet, the path that he takes is rough and uncertain, sans model and determination he'll miss his aim."

 - A V Rotor

"Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality." - Oscar Wilde

           4. "Nature is a world of reality and fantasy."- avr

Wish the animals are alive and tame.  Author's Residence Lagro QC

 

They never saw the animals in the wild;

no, not in the concrete jungle of the city;

save a visit to the zoo, images on TV,

it's a world of reality and fantasy.

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