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.