Artwork © Richard Spisak

 

Science is observation

analysis, and continually revising
theoretical explanations testing doubts arising
Where data collides oh so often with
With all your so well articulated expectations.
And fresh sampled data renews sweet revelation we eschew.
It’s through continual re-evaluation
of theory based on data, not revelation.
While others would rush willy nilly
they sometime manage a sidelong glance
at details arranged and rarely silly,
assembled sometime later in the dance,
and it will rarely if ever given the chance.

Data collection and the flexibility
to refresh and revise explanations of this ability.
OPEN MINDED DATA COLLECTION
DENIES CERTAINTY or at the very least confounds
dizzying compounds of tremulous and tendentious Expectations.

Examples there are, to be sure
of a quite considerable reluctance in some quarters
to accept fresh data knocking impertinently at the door.
While ossified and arthritic close’d minds, those who would
sentry guard against the imposition of too fresh ideas,
Daring to sneak across the borders, would keep fresh facts under orders.
Retrain, restrained under no comfortable ORDER,
under lock and key, washing up and waiting for the porters.
Who would not let her be.

COUNTLESS INNOVATORS
Pitted too often against the powers that be
But for progress to be refreshed
They must not block the newer refined and fresher key of mind.

Eventually the old guard falls
Onto their ossified ideas bouncing balls
Leaving room for a fresher takes
And cleaner breaks
And brand new vistas
We seize JAH! – Human be-ings
SEEING SEEKING BREATH. Not Death.

Science is OBSERVATION

Science is observation, analysis, and continually revising theoretical
explanations, but especially, It’s the continual re-evaluation of theory based on continued data collection and the flexibility to revise explanations. (There are examples to be sure of reluctance in some quarters to accept fresh data and fresh evaluations. ) But, this eventually succumbs to a preponderance of fresh data, and refined analysis.

 

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.