Your challenge: write a haiku or limerick featuring one of the subjects discussed here in the past seven days: wind power, Steel Winds, or something from Monday's nature quote. Feel free to mine the comments, too.
Post your haiku or limericks in the comments, below. Remember the pattern of a haiku is:
First, 5 syllables,
the second line has seven.
Please post your haiku or limerick in the comments, below.
As climate changes
ReplyDeleteso must we. Hoist the windmills!
And let's stop rowing.
Hi, Patricia, So good to meet you for real last night at Murr's reading!
ReplyDeleteA metal tree taller than tamarind,
like flying fish so oddly finned,
captures wind with its vanes;
but we're grievously pained
if a bird, unaware, become javelined.
The fin-vanes, we say, must be disciplined
to be safer when windy they're spinned.
Don't give us heck no's,
but look to the tech-knows
to guard birds AND harvest our wind.
Here's one more verse.
ReplyDeleteOld industrial sites are the best.
If bird safety can meet the hard test,
that now hopeful tower
will bring us more power,
its spinning redeeming its past.
Whoo hoo! Well done, Rosemary! Glad to see you back here and even happier to have finally met you in person the other night!
DeleteUse clean energy
ReplyDeleteEven if it doesn't burn
Look for no downsides
I'm thinking of how many years we've been calling for clean energy (1979 no nukes concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufo3Hw-5DUM). Maybe at loooong last, the time has come and the change has begun.
ReplyDeleteIn old-time Oklahoma
ReplyDeletewind power pumped the water.
And on those Spanish hills
Quixote found wind mills.
The wind has driven ships
on many sailing trips.
The breeze that bears the birds
can power more than words.
Smaller may be better
in any kind of weather.