What Is Creativity? Poem by Eric Niehoff

Is it coming up with something completely new?
Creating something from nothing as if on cue

Is it combining made concepts in order to create?
The ability to do so is still something great

Is it the ability and flexibility to adapt to change?
Embracing the new despite it being strange

Does it come from ability or a great deal of work?
In perspiration or inspiration does it lurk?

The answer it seems incorporates them all
It’s finding the new, escaping the banal

All human beings are capable of imagination
But we are taught to deny its cultivation

As a child we create often with little limitation
As practicality is expected it comes in moderation

Judgment and logic become commonly used
Our creative impulses now often refused

To escape the trap, we change how we think
Question the norm, and find a new link

Then action and thoughts find new direction
A solution that could just be perfection