Artwork © Richard Spisak
Educate… MMMM
Studying, History and loving science
takes us away from blind myth reliance.
Collecting honest data, builds a life
and drags us up from the miasma of single cell pond life.
Myth and legends have their place
but civilization and technology
have their own special grace.
The shift to uplift, feels good and right.
Well trod footpaths and their recognition, enriches our
mental activity and improves our conditions.
Threading through the waves of history
reduces crippling erroneous assumptions and so many other miseries.
When reading carefully the annals of science, we learn of many
heroic actors and their experimental reliance.
When we carefully stack the facts , we clear the troublesome
rubble of hacks.
Academe admittedly is far from perfect,
it is after all true, that it is humans that work it.
Its true science’s advancements are often opposed, as any
honest reading of science history shows.
As science inspires us, we may make progress daily, so in
our high tech encrusted lives. We might celebrate with our
global brethren and sistern gaily!
Repeatable phenomenon upon which facts adhere, is one of
the ways we grow a better future here.
Collect the data, then decide, and by all means, never
let the fearful, steer the ride.
We may live surrounded by technology.
But for progress to truly flourish for human dignity
there is never any need for an APOLOGY.
Richard Spisak began his artistic career as a light artist in the Lumonics Studios of Mel Tanner, a legendary Light Artist. After serving under Jack Horkheimer as a planetarium operator at the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, he left to begin traveling with Lumist Kenvin Lyman, whose show Dazzleland Studios traveled across America. Richard later worked as a Laserist with LASERIUM and Laser Productions, served as a technical producer for the festival company PACE Concerts, and later as operations Manager and Senior Producer at WWHP and WTCN-TV in Stuart Florida.
Richard writes for Theatre, TV, radio, and the web. He published two short story collections, Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and Between the Silences. Followed by his poetry collection 7370 Allen Drive and the recently released STONE POETRY. Richard also produces “POETS of the East,” a televised webcast featuring poets from across the globe.