Creative Worshiping

 

Did not ancient creators value enterprise

As they invent and apply the wheel and realize

That they had reduced work as had the lever

Did humanity recognize those that were clever

Did we thank them for extraordinary contribution

As the wheel of work turned another revolution

Was Whitney valued later for the cotton gin

Did we multiple work output over and over again

Bosch and Haber found nitrogen from air they could mine

And Borlaug in praise gave us wheat hybrids to stop famine

 

Do we appreciate the value of light in hours of night

Was Edison worshiping when his experiment showed us light

Do we know that Tesla ensured transmission to the home

Electricity, so with a flip that wondrous light is shone

Was it Marconi’s worship or his electromagnetic thought

Of wondrous voices of our love ones he brought

For Bell, whose invention allowed us to hear

Our loved ones as if they were ever so near

Did Schottky and chorus of others make transistor small

So that we can carry in our pocket friends and family all

Are theories of Shannon a form of worship applied

Such information we can decipher, for which we relied

 

Wondrous creations with no thought of wealth

Scientist with discoveries to enhance our health

Salk and others exceeded the result of an iron lung

Nobel prizes are a way their praises can be sung

And evil dragons of heart disease can be slayed

By Ersek patented stent, properly played

Or how about the ancients that found pain relieved

Surely, they felt it important and they must’ve believed

That chemistry was worship of sort indeed

Born of alchemy and experiment, creativity’s seed

And what of today’s medical research investment

Is it wealth, or is creative worship the enticement

We should never accept that medicine is good enough

Encourage our youth to be creative and be of the right stuff

 

Did math and physics always exist awaiting discover

Was it creative to find great mysteries under cover

Did Newton worship the beautiful necessity of gravity

Did Einstein praise time and unbound it through relativity

Would we know of a universe and our place

Without Galileo describing Earth correctly in space

What of atoms as the nature of matter, small units, individual and distinct

Ancient philosophers describing the nature with thought and instinct

Dalton would use to define why elements react in ratios of numbers whole

Would Thompson have discovered electrons and their wonderous role

Would Bohr and so many that helped find order in the universe of small

Corollaries fascinate between the grand universality of space, atoms and all

 

So too creativity of words, imagery, thought should be defined

As worship of the human soul, granted by God, but continually refined

Artistry brings out understanding, and thereby wisdom and emotion

DaVinci worked relentlessly on a smile, that was nothing short of devotion

Did Shakespeare merely entertain or was he saying we should examine our souls

Was Hemingway also challenging our understanding in For Whom the Bell Tolls

Did Dali bring us images that look deeper into our conscience collective

As music, rhythms and lyrics and melodies explore our world objective

Doesn’t Dylan and Taylor create music and lyrics to inspire

Is not music part of God’s expectation for a joyous choir

Did He not plan for us to laugh with mirth

So creative comedy must too have great worth

 

Creativity is like finding your way through a thick and dense mist

Dedication, insight, perseverance and yet the fog continues to resist

Appreciating the work of so many that came before

They found a way through the mist and to discovery’s door

They build on each other’s success, creations and insight

Creatively worshiping is humankind’s God-given right

 

We have the right and honor to be creative in our own way

And we can give honor to creativity through inventive ways everyday

Decorating a room to give all who see it some beauty and delight

Find a way to curiosity, or simply showing a child wrong from right

In ways that are creative and induces life-long learning

That creative spark that sets others toward discovery yearning

Whether we paint, write, discover, or creatively repair

Using our talents to create is as human as breathing air

We appreciate the grand creations of communication, transportation, light at night

We appreciate medical understanding and practice, math, and physics brought to light

And we appreciate the opportunity to enjoy music, and the beauty of art and rhyme

As the wheel of creative work, production and progress affords us that worshiping time