are you awake
do you not want to
see her reach-
ing out to you
someone is die-ing
she can not save you
all by her self -
without your
selves.
Peace One Day - 2012
Some things are hard to hear and hard to say, poetry, sometimes provides the way. - by Polar Jo (Jo McKay)
15 September 2012
Life Support
are you awake
do you not want to
see her reach-
ing out to you
someone is die-ing
she can not save you
all by her self -
without your
selves.
19 September 2011
another approach- September. 2011
Corporate Dragons - the Coast Road Song
Chorus: Walking along a coast road, looking out to sea
Feel the breath, the life, that's out there
The Oceans calling me -
An otter pride, O'er an eagle's cry, remind
Of kin we once have been
It is business without ethics, informs our children's dreams
- dead zones, oil and plastics - absorb too much C02
- censors the spoils of beauty
- smother the whale of a mammals sound,
- muzzle the free who've been run a-ground -
& sweetness turns to late night screams -
parental comfort with ancient lies - un-intentially
"It'll be all right, there's no need to cry,
we are here tonight, we'll take care of all your needs"
How mighty is that dragon's fire
Will we be strong enough to face it's ire-
Will we touch into the deep profound,
Or turn around, and close our eyes,
To sleep at night - And lose the earth to greed.
Corporate Dragons - the Coast Road Song
Chorus: Walking along a coast road, looking out to sea
Feel the breath, the life, that's out there
The Oceans calling me -
An otter pride, O'er an eagle's cry, remind
Of kin we once have been
It is business without ethics, informs our children's dreams
- dead zones, oil and plastics - absorb too much C02
- censors the spoils of beauty
- smother the whale of a mammals sound,
- muzzle the free who've been run a-ground -
& sweetness turns to late night screams -
parental comfort with ancient lies - un-intentially
"It'll be all right, there's no need to cry,
we are here tonight, we'll take care of all your needs"
Chorus
How mighty is that dragon's fire
Will we be strong enough to face it's ire-
Will we touch into the deep profound,
Or turn around, and close our eyes,
To sleep at night - And lose the earth to greed.
Chorus
# - Jo McKay (polar Jo)26 August 2011
Polar Jo-Poems and Songs: Peace One Day
Polar Jo-Poems and Songs: Peace One Day
also view this Ted Talk - Aug 2011 for the story & history of a World Peace Day, annually on Sept 21st.
http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/video/jeremy-gilley-one-day-of-peace-ted-talk
also view this Ted Talk - Aug 2011 for the story & history of a World Peace Day, annually on Sept 21st.
http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/video/jeremy-gilley-one-day-of-peace-ted-talk
Peace One Day
PEACE ONE DAY
What innocence
might return to a child
who imagines Peace One Day
What soft light, in Bright eyes
when a child hears
yes, you can go outside to Play
For once
in all these troubled times
there will be no War today...
What innocence
might return to a child
who imagines Peace One Day ...
- Jo McKay
What innocence
might return to a child
who imagines Peace One Day
What soft light, in Bright eyes
when a child hears
yes, you can go outside to Play
For once
in all these troubled times
there will be no War today...
What innocence
might return to a child
who imagines Peace One Day ...
- Jo McKay
19 August 2011
Mama Orlanda
MAMA ORLANDA
Our Mama - Orlanda
eccentric and authentic
always a Lady
...she had a way to be
color and light and free
She would say "everybody hey-
now listen to me:
chorus:
If you ever need
some bodies love, she said
remember me --
you'll see -----
you are and have always been
most deeply loved of human beings...
Embrace it and believe it!"
... embrace it and believe it ...
Our Mama- Orlanda
always a Lady
she had a way to see
everything inside of me -
And she would say ---
repeat chorus
- love Jo McKay
Our Mama - Orlanda
eccentric and authentic
always a Lady
...she had a way to be
color and light and free
She would say "everybody hey-
now listen to me:
chorus:
If you ever need
some bodies love, she said
remember me --
you'll see -----
you are and have always been
most deeply loved of human beings...
Embrace it and believe it!"
... embrace it and believe it ...
Our Mama- Orlanda
always a Lady
she had a way to see
everything inside of me -
And she would say ---
repeat chorus
- love Jo McKay
01 March 2011
Remembering my youngest son
some of Rick's story in pictures. completed 5 years after he died. "some thoughts do often lie too deep, for words" - Wordsworth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=Ns-15qh2fXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=Ns-15qh2fXU
27 November 2010
Big Bang Lights
Big Bang Lights Fill up the Sky
I know the Galaxies Are streaking on by -
Naked my soul Longs for answers to why -
The Universe expanding Isolation and Ice
We see the past (perhaps the future) almost every night
Unload our cloak of arrogance And look up at the sky -
By nature or design what's the point of the fight -
We wear our true morality in how we live our life!
___________________________________ - Jo McKay, 2010
Thank you for the photo from google images.
One of my favorite movies is COSMOS with Carl Sagan ; it's old now I know, but still seems so relevant today. Millions of people do not understand the simplest laws & facts of physics. It seems that less real science is being taught in our schools today then a generation ago. Why? Because a few leaders of specific religious brands began to feel threatened by scientific evidence and so they went on the attack - first- disputing (though not with any credible evidence) evolution of species, then with all science. I think that very few rational thinking humans realize how damaging these well funded
attacks have become. If you vote, I hope you vote for reason.
17 November 2010
WHAT HAPPENS THEN IS THIS
What happens ~ when evil trickles down
and now thousands ~ of good people ~ find themselves
in their everyday lives, asked - required - to do things
that are unconscionable to them ~
"I have to deny this person's disability, because why? ~ or
step on another's civil liberties, foreclose on their homes ~
hand out lay off notices, when I know the company profits ~
cover up ~ deny ~ lie
What happens ~ when now millions
go home every day - wipe their brow - whisper to themselves ~
it's just the policy ~ I'm just doing my job
Yet ~ in their hearts ~ they know ~ there is something terribly wrong.
What happens ~ when legions of people
at home, and around the world begin ~ to wake up
look in the mirror ~ and bravely face,
the unvarnished, unpalatable truth ~
the world has changed;
my world, as I thought it, is changed.
unchecked greed now rules this place ~
robbing, terrorizing, proselytizing ~ responsible for despicable,
in-explicable, previously un-imaginable things.
What happens then is this ~
your heart breaks
and you wake
every morning ~ to the ache
angry or humiliated or weak to the knees ~ asking yourself
what will I, can I do ~ today?
I will vote ~ in the ways a vote still counts.
Stop shopping (without thinking) ~ I will no longer, knowingly
contribute to, this horrible ~ unethical ~ insatiable greed.
Start bargaining ~ Trading, Gardening, Talking to neighbors & friends ~
Become ~ more efficient, self - sufficient ~ ANYTHING ~
to be ~ just a little less ~ every day ~ like Sheep.
- Jo McKay 2010
________________________________________________________
What happens I wondered when the people begin to know that many of our leaders are the puppets of corporate kings. What happens when we witness, notice, hundreds of people are running around, behaving like demi-gods, or feudal lords of their little kingdoms. These are the leaders of trust,
in our governments, banks and corporations, they are our law - makers, producers, employers, protectors, of the people. What would we do then? MY hope is that what happens then is this...
- Thank you for reading, thinking, and doing - Jo McKay (Polar Jo)
and now thousands ~ of good people ~ find themselves
in their everyday lives, asked - required - to do things
that are unconscionable to them ~
"I have to deny this person's disability, because why? ~ or
step on another's civil liberties, foreclose on their homes ~
hand out lay off notices, when I know the company profits ~
cover up ~ deny ~ lie
What happens ~ when now millions
go home every day - wipe their brow - whisper to themselves ~
it's just the policy ~ I'm just doing my job
Yet ~ in their hearts ~ they know ~ there is something terribly wrong.
What happens ~ when legions of people
at home, and around the world begin ~ to wake up
look in the mirror ~ and bravely face,
the unvarnished, unpalatable truth ~
the world has changed;
my world, as I thought it, is changed.
unchecked greed now rules this place ~
robbing, terrorizing, proselytizing ~ responsible for despicable,
in-explicable, previously un-imaginable things.
What happens then is this ~
your heart breaks
and you wake
every morning ~ to the ache
angry or humiliated or weak to the knees ~ asking yourself
what will I, can I do ~ today?
I will vote ~ in the ways a vote still counts.
Stop shopping (without thinking) ~ I will no longer, knowingly
contribute to, this horrible ~ unethical ~ insatiable greed.
Start bargaining ~ Trading, Gardening, Talking to neighbors & friends ~
Become ~ more efficient, self - sufficient ~ ANYTHING ~
to be ~ just a little less ~ every day ~ like Sheep.
- Jo McKay 2010
________________________________________________________
What happens I wondered when the people begin to know that many of our leaders are the puppets of corporate kings. What happens when we witness, notice, hundreds of people are running around, behaving like demi-gods, or feudal lords of their little kingdoms. These are the leaders of trust,
in our governments, banks and corporations, they are our law - makers, producers, employers, protectors, of the people. What would we do then? MY hope is that what happens then is this...
- Thank you for reading, thinking, and doing - Jo McKay (Polar Jo)
14 October 2010
26 September 2010
Pure light
I can not help but seek the error
in my road -
or the seed of my failure
or wonder that I wandered so far off course.
Self analysis has not brought me peace
The words of prophets, only momentary grace
Perhaps that is all the grace I can ask for.
Perhaps there is - no - grace.
I wonder at the veracity and credibility of my vision -
I can not deny nor embrace them.
Transparent light is not crystal or clear
or enlightening~as all light reflects all color
even when the source of multi-hues
cannot be readily handily seen.
I ask for too much, from light, and
from myself and others. - Jo McKay, 2010
______________________________________________________
A 'stranger' wrote a poem for me once (least wise I've never found
another author). It read "In that what is crystalline, represents the pure
heart & the pure spirit - may the light that shines on you - shine clear through" - he left it for me, with a white rose, at my work - for a while, I sought that transparent light. :)
in my road -
or the seed of my failure
or wonder that I wandered so far off course.
Self analysis has not brought me peace
The words of prophets, only momentary grace
Perhaps that is all the grace I can ask for.
Perhaps there is - no - grace.
I wonder at the veracity and credibility of my vision -
I can not deny nor embrace them.
Transparent light is not crystal or clear
or enlightening~as all light reflects all color
even when the source of multi-hues
cannot be readily handily seen.
I ask for too much, from light, and
from myself and others. - Jo McKay, 2010
______________________________________________________
A 'stranger' wrote a poem for me once (least wise I've never found
another author). It read "In that what is crystalline, represents the pure
heart & the pure spirit - may the light that shines on you - shine clear through" - he left it for me, with a white rose, at my work - for a while, I sought that transparent light. :)
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