One of the major inventions that changed the world. Only two entities have created light here on planet earth over the billions of eons that it existed - God and Mankind. That's something to think about. I believe that the way we are most like God is reflected in the Creator's ability to create.

This poem is a fourteener.
A Fourteener, in poetry, is a line consisting of 14 syllables, which are usually made of 7 iambic feet for which the style is also called iambic heptameter. It is most commonly found in English poetry produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. It can be used in a Sonnet, which has 14 lines.

I've done that here, writing in iambic Heptameter. Only, I wrote the Sonnet in the Petrarchan style, which has two Quatrains followed by a sestet. Usually the first two quatrains establish a proposition while the sestet gives a resolution.
The typical Petrarchan rhyme scheme is:abba abba cdccdc(or cdecde)
I modified this a bit by interlinking the "b" rhyme from the quatrains into the sestet.
Therefore my rhyme scheme becomes: abba abba cbccbc (skipping the "d" rhyme).

The Proposition is that mankind has created something new on this planet, akin to God's work. The resolution is that it has drawn us into a new age and become indespensible.

This photograph was taken by the author of a simple lamppost set against the sky. The autumn's leaves and blue sky represent God's best. The lamppost mans invention.

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