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.

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
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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)

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

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
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 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. :)

The Coast Road Song

The Coast Road Song (everyday is earth day) 

Walkin along a coast road

Looking out to sea

I feel the breath, the life

that's out there -

Oceans calling me

You know I've never met an otter

who I didn't like, A whale or a sea lion,
who'd wanna throw away their life.

So why, why why

Do we feed poison to our friends

why, why, why - orchestrate our planet's end.

It is business, without ethics

that corrupts our futures dream -

Mighty is that dragon's fire

Will we be strong enough, to face it's ire

or close our eyes and lose the earth to greed.

I don't mean to be a preacher

I don't aim to make you fall

but your environmental failures

have put us up against the wall.

Atop the heights of mountains

I see forests - ever green

In the valleys, on the hilltops

Golden eagles, flying, free

You know, I moved across these landscapes

Swam in pristine and lovely lakes -

And yet I've never seen the northern lights

through acid rain, or a smog filled night.

The woodland sounds, a lone wolf howls

as were awed by the midnight sight.

How we can touch, so much beauty

then forget it, when we leave

Is a crime for which we'll answer

unto heaven - and history...

Walkin along a coast road

looking out to sea

Wishing the world would listen

Hoping the world will see -

Why would we allow it

the poisoning of friends

How can we permit it

these disasters without end -

Walking along a coast road

just looking out to sea...                      - Jo McKay (aka Polar Jo)
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This is a  song, so you need to imagine yourself singing it rather than reading it. LOL. How did you do? My brother had a band when we were teenagers and I helped to 'write the songs'. (That was the beginning of my, usually unpaid writing career :). I wanted to write an Earth Day song about something imminently important. I think our oceans are under siege right now. To learn more,
go to TED TALKS "Sylvia Earle- How to Protect our Oceans"and at Top Docs online, watch "The End of the Line" - both excellent films that are 'solution' oriented.