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Dragon's Nest

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Dragon’s Nest.

They huff and puff their plumes of heated breath
into an atmosphere already raw.
These earthbound dragons, guarding nests of death,
fighting for dominance with tooth and claw.
Their carbon offspring doze beneath their feet
or bleed out into nuclear decay -
a fair trade for their gifts of light and heat?
Perhaps we will regret that choice one day.

For what is this? A champion in white
with spinning arms and blades as sharp as swords,
an ecological Samurai knight
come to slay the wheezing wyrm cancer Lords.
Yet they are turned away and shunned by those
who prefer silence when the wild wind blows.

Shakespearean SonetSelby Power StationWind TurbinesFossil EnergyWind PowerEcology

◄ Dha Kro’z Ov Al-bi-an

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 6th Jun 2015 17:53

My goodness- what a feast of words in a strong formal voice.

Is it so much noise as vision, as 'windmills' break up the scenery like the march of a galactic invasion? It's hard to think 'benign'.

<Deleted User> (13762)

Fri 5th Jun 2015 20:25

nice one Ian.

the irony now is that government subsidies fuel Drax to use wood chip from the US where small-scale landowners are shredding their trees for our energy greed. I believe it's 3 ships a day to feed the dreaded Drax and it's only us that's bought in to this nonsense.

anyways, enough of the rants and three cheers for renewables and a decent poem too. Cheers.

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