Light of My Soul

Written
1997

 The light sensitive switch to my soul

        is activated through my eyes.

Wherever I look there is a

       venue for nature's message of hope.

Variety and repetition,

      powerful and gentle,

      subtle and gaudy,

      and bright and dim

      the show is never dull.

A morning drive south is a display

       of black night giving way

       to a light mother of pearl sky.

The first hint of light shows a broad pink pallet

        through a fog filter.

The pumpkin orange

        of the first tip of the

         rising sun adds

        a drop of blue to the

        time lightened sky.

The gossamer fog hides

        and then reveals

       the pale yellow silver dollar

       of early morning sun

       like a naughty burlesque dancer.

The night tears

       are the morning moisture

       that make the sun seem as if

       it is coming out of a

       steamy morning shower.

The green leaves of fruit trees

      are covered with dew as

       they become glittering ghosts.

The daily light show begins

       and my sleeping soul

       is awakened.

 

Notes
In the years after my 1991 first retirement I drove to Fresno in the early morning to serve as the Co-Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership UC Davis?CSU fresno. I drove the trip hundreds of times. Flew it many times and also did the train ride a few time. It is a boring straight road with little but the sky and the crops to stimulate the senses. Winter sunrises were the exception