Creation

CREATION

WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

By Bob Blackman

Copyright © April 12, 2008

God could have made the earth a perfect sphere.

He could have made the sun to shine and never disappear.

He could have made the rivers, without ripples, waves or attitude,

To flow on straight, in lines of longitude and latitude.

He could have made all trees to look like cones

And every kind of animal, appear as copied clones.

He could have made mankind with no ability to err

To always worship Him in perfect praise and prayer.

Instead, He filled creation with dappled dazzling things

With seasons; Winters, Summers, Falls and Springs.

With kangaroos and dromedary, and the pompous platypus,

And bats and bumblebees, and hippopotamus,

With hammerheads, grand giraffes and wiggly octopi;

Giants, pigmies, redwood trees, bonsai and fungi

And yet there is in style and form, a pattern truly fair

In every stippled, fickle, freckled tiny cell and hair.

Praise God for beauty formed in scientific artistry and skill,