I think of innovation as adding poetry to life. To be POETIC requires the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. This is what I call innovation in life. In the case of innovation, that distinctive style of living and working “poetically” means doing things differently. Using POETIC as both a definition and an acronym for innovation, start thinking in these terms:
- Thinking innovatively is first about P, for People: Thinking innovatively requires we have empathy for the people we work with and serve, imagining the world through the perspective of others, and in fact, through multiple people perspectives;
- Thinking innovatively is about O, for Optimistic thinking: Knowing that there is at least one breakthrough idea that will come along for your solution if you keep at it;
- Thinking innovatively is about E, for Experimentation: This involves a process of trial and error as we think through various solutions. It also requires the belief in an Emergent idea that will come as a result of the process;
- Thinking innovatively is about T, for Tension. Change never comes easy, and change means there will be opposition. Wade in the Water!
- Thinking innovatively is about I, for Integrating parts of a problem toward a breakthrough Idea that brings a solution to the pursuit of the challenge;
- Thinking innovatively is about C, for Collaboration and Collaborative thinking, drawing from the skills and knowledge of others and not relying solely on oneself.
Live the POETIC life!
Andrey Luchnik says
Dear Tim Sharp!
I understand yor appeal for real poetry in English.
By the way, have you ever understood why Shakespeare’s 150 sonets equal in number to King James Bible 150 Psalms? Please compare the language. It is the same. This mistery is discussed by linguists outside UK or USA. Because “Shakespeare” was really the right hand of the English Queen, not the actor, but great diplomat and in the same time the great poet. How he was so experienced in Danish and Italian international affairs? And so realistic about everything? Because he worked there at the order of the British Queen.
We should open our eyes to that great man. I worked upon translations of Psalms into the language more understandable for modern English people. They like it.
I’ll give you examples in my second massage, if you like.
Yours.
Andrey Luchnik says
Some excerpts:
Psalm 4
1 I appeal to Your truth and Your righteousness, Godship All-holy
1 In the closeness, gloomy and tight, You cast light on the way
2 O how long will the vicious and sly circumvent and take over!
2 O how long will they smugly and vainly spend their days!
3 They should better conceive: the Almighty watches over the godly
3 He will hear the virtuous whenever they summon and pray.
4 Do diminish your rage, see the hallowed light from the heavens!
4 And in silent reflection disburden your hearts to be calm
5 This oblation is higher than blood sacrifice immolation
5 Bring your offering to the altar of the conscience of love.
6 To those seeking and asking “Who shows us the light of perfection?”
6 Let the light of Your face be the sign of Your grace from above.
7 All my essense is filled with joy and my soul is thanking
7 When I see the abounding bread that the others receive
8 With a peace in my heart I fall sleep and in peace rise again
8 For the light of Your love will alone brighten up and relieve.
Psalm 5
1 Lean to my words, percieve into my mind,
2 Do hear my prayer, O my God and Lord !
3 From early dawn I feel that You inspire
4 You never breathe Your sense into the wrong
5 The arrogant cannot withstand Your presence
5 You do reject the evil sense and law
6 You pick the liars to their evil essence
6 Those of deceit You loathe and abhor.
7 Your mercy leads me right into Your temple
7 I’ll bow in prayer, deep into my laud
8 Lead me to proper way, direct and ample
8 Your ways are hindrance to the bane and wrong.
9 Their words – disaster, hearts are vile and vicious
9 Their mouth – grave, their language is deceit
10 The day will come – they’ll drown in their evil
10 For by their lies they rise against Thee
11 Those rise in joy, who dwell within Your wonder
11 And get a refuge, that You only give
11 They’ll chant and sing aloud – sound thunder
12 For only God gives shelter and a shield.
Psalm 6
1 Do not demolish with Your wrath and fury,
1 Don`t punish me, do not rebuke in anger,
2 Forgive, You see – I’m all destroyed and lurid,
2 Do cure me, my God, I’m down and trembling.
3 My soul is broken down in disaster;
3 O Lord, do not demolish any longer,
4 Replace Your rage with mercy, do it faster,
4 O, pass this cup away, please do restore me.
5 The dead wouldn`t pray to God, would not adore Him,
5 Would never chant aloud from interment.
6 I`m worn away by the perpetual groaning,
6 And flood my bed with tears, almost drowning.
7 My eyes are stunned and blind in grief and sorrow, –
7 They lose their life in everlasting leaking.
8 O, run away, the wicked and ignoble, –
8 The Lord has heard and seen his faithful`s weeping.
9 He`s heard my plea for mercy and my prayer,
9 He brought my fate under the Higher shielding.
10 My foes will be dismissed and ashamed –
10 They`d better change their ways – or seek for pity.
Psalm 7
1 Release me from the evil of my foes –
2 They would not set upon me any longer!
3 But if I`ve done mischief without remorse,
4 And harmed against peaceful, being stronger,
4 (Though in my life I lent a hand to those)
5 I voluntary give up, dead to honor.
6 They sink in grief; who do not know their deed.
6 They controvert Your trial in obsession.
7 All peoples gather under mighty grip –
8 Judge me as all according my confession.
9 At Judgment day the godly are asleep,
9 While wayward soul`s are in hell`s possession.
10 My shelter is a shield of Your reprieve,
11 You`re fair but they badly test Your patience –
12 The evildoers would not get relief –
12 Their lives are terminated very sadly
12,13 The earth is burning under dirty feet,
13 The child of evil meets a flaming arrow.
14 Who plans to do an innocent mischief –
15 Does not intend himself to be affected,
15,16 But very soon he is within abyss.
17 Let stretch above the earth the might of Heaven!
Psalm 8
1 Heavenly Name – inspiration all over the world
1 Heavenly Will propagates furthermore than the skies
2 Breathing of babies declares the Glory of God
2 And overpowers perversion, misfortune and lies.
3 Beauty of heavenly heights is a gift from Your hands-
3 You birthed celestial stars and perpetual moon.
4 How do You hear the beating of hearts on the land?
4 How do You care for everyone – nighttime and noon?
5 Your faithful likeness gave life to the spirit of man
5 Your holy message had opened to humans Your deeds
6 You had delivered to man holy works of Your hands
6 You had attentively put everything at his feet
7 Herds and all flocks as abundant as numerous stars
8 Birds in the skies and the vigilant beasts in the fields,
8 Fish in the sea that obey an invisible path
9 Let Thy Name be as an endless, interminate feast.
Psalm 10/11
2 You maliciously call to me: fool! Fly away from the road!
2 Your hostility tightens the strings of the poisonous bows.
2 When you shoot from the darkness of night, feeling safe and remote,
1 You deny that my Heavenly Shield would protect from your blows.
3 When the walls of the law are destroyed – there are no supporters;
4 I rely on the only support – I rely on the Lord, –
4 For He sees human deeds, for He hears all the whispers and roars –
5 For the truth in the scales of God outweighs all the wrong.
6 Rains of justice become burning flames for the vicious, ignoble –
6 Scorching wind from the desert becomes their lot and their fate,
7 For the Lord loveth truth, for Himself He is virtuous and noble –
7 In the hour of justice He turns to the people of grace.
Psalm 11/12
1 No more the meek are seen, no more the godly,
2 Who open their mouth for to pray.
2 No more the words of truth are heard and spoken,
3 But falsehood would no longer last and stay.
4 Those who exalt with words obscene and empty,
4 Who swear that they’re masters to themselves,
5 They’ll see the day of justice and redemption:
5 You’ll come to the spiritual and fair.
6 They’ll hear the word of sense, divine and flawless
7 That’s uttered for forever and a day –
8 The vanquish for the senseless words and gossip,
8 But shelter for the godly for an aye.
Some music to the texts you may listen to at https://www.realmusic.ru/andy_ericsson/ (please use headphones instead of Notebook loudspeakers).
Yours.