Poetry with Nature: Seeing Heaven through a Leaf, Weeds, Light in the Forest

Poetry with Nature

Dr Abe V Rotor

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1. Seeing Heaven through a Leaf

        Atop Mt Makiling, Laguna

I see these holes

    windows of the sky,

I see the stars

    the birds that fly

I see the day

    the darkness of night,

I see the universe

    beyond the sight

I see these keyholes

    the doors of life,

I see the way to heaven

    in joy and strife. ~

 

           2. Weeds

 Bachelor's Button (or Butbutones/Cornflower), Centaurea cyanus.

There are creatures destined to live

     best in the wild,

Where everything is so little,

     others barely thrive.

They fill the emptiness of time,

     and that of space,

The forgotten corners of the Earth

     with divine grace. ~

 3. Light in the Forest

Light in the Forest, mural in acrylic, AVR, Summer, 2010.

I'm lost, wandering in a forest ever since -

Could this be Paradise, the lost Paradise?

I never knew its edge, its height, its might,

I never knew myself, minuscule to its size,

Amidst a sea of green and towering giants,

Piercing the sky, shrouded by mist and rain;

I'm lost in their limbs veiled by moss and vine,

Cloaked by a mantle of forever green.

How long I've slept, no one will ever know;

As no one knows who my ancestor was,

Before waking up into a Homo sapiens. Lo!

By the forbidden Tree and its fruit. Alas!

And I, I have been a wanderer since then,

Driven out and away with guilt forever worn,

Away from prison, from the watchful Eye,

Rising to a beautiful Light every morn. ~