Creation

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"The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson is poetry about God almighty created what we know as life. As, God stepped out onto space he said he was "lonely". Next, he said to himself that he would make him a world. So, god started putting the pieces together to make his perfect world.
Secondly, God smiled then light appeared. Then, God reached out and grabbed the light and rolled it up in his hand until he made the sun. "After he sent the sun to the heavens, the light that was remaining he gathered into a ball, and threw it at the darkness and made night with moon and stars." Next, "God created many things such as lightning, thunder, rain, grass, flowers, rivers, sea, birds, beasts, forests, and woods."
After all of Gods creation he was still lonely in his New World. So, God decided to create man. Then, he sat down and scooped up some clay and shaped it in his own image. Next, he blew his breath of life onto the clay and man became a living thing soul.
We all know that the book of "Genesis" is the first sign of creation and it also describes the creation of the world like the poem by James Weldon Johnson. Basically, it's the same, but a little different. The only things that are different to me is that god was more vocal in the book of "Genesis". When God wanted something or he wanted something to happen he just spoke upon it. For example, when he said "let there be light", and there was light. And in the poem by James Weldon Johnson the lord seem to do everything by hand....