06-28-2016, 08:31 AM
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Wind Flutters
Who has a thing to say about the wind?
To old-time sailors pressing, shifting force;
it made excuse for lovers who had sinned
then called each other feathers blown off-course.
Today our culture sees gas particles
with wind their average speed, direction, scents,
arrests its gusts in windmill manacles
to power cities’ grid-establishments.
But wind’s inconstant, fleeting as desire -
what moves us to prefer its fickle flow
to take the place of coal’s pent saffron fire,
a heady rush displacing steady glow?
We’ll have our breezy flutter but return
with time to coal, and constancy’s long burn.
I've tried to address the various criticisms provided by my valued commentators here. Probably least happy with the new title, though aerodynamicists (and wind turbines are aerodynamic) will understand that flutter is a very serious problem indeed.
Thanks, all!
Wind Flutters
Who has a thing to say about the wind?
To old-time sailors pressing, shifting force;
it made excuse for lovers who had sinned
then called each other feathers blown off-course.
Today our culture sees gas particles
with wind their average speed, direction, scents,
arrests its gusts in windmill manacles
to power cities’ grid-establishments.
But wind’s inconstant, fleeting as desire -
what moves us to prefer its fickle flow
to take the place of coal’s pent saffron fire,
a heady rush displacing steady glow?
We’ll have our breezy flutter but return
with time to coal, and constancy’s long burn.
I've tried to address the various criticisms provided by my valued commentators here. Probably least happy with the new title, though aerodynamicists (and wind turbines are aerodynamic) will understand that flutter is a very serious problem indeed.
Thanks, all!
Non-practicing atheist