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Daniel A. Stafford | 6/28/2001 2:09:52 AM
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Spinnerette:
There's rumors of you in Moses' Egypt, indeed,
There's evidence of you still standing in what was ancient Persia,
And Cretan cloth once draped your arms,
And you were once standing in the shadow of the Colossus at Rhodes,
Sultans and Kings, Lords and commoners alike entranced by you,
And in your hundreds of thousands in all places of the ancient world,
Nearly up until yesterday,
You brought food, water, dry land to the hands of men,
You've tamed the wilds of Argentina, Siberia,
Pulled the lands of Holland from under the nose of the sea,
And those who spoke your secret languages,
The just so set of your arms,
Decorations adorn you at appropriate times,
They lived an enriched life,
And though you were always a demanding mistress,
Sometimes fickle in temperament,
You always came back our way in the nick of time,
Until in our arrogance we thought to leave you,
Racing towards something we thought much better,
Only to burn our lungs with putrid fumes,
To put the very Earth at risk,
When to return to your seemingly simple beauty would save us,
Would grace us,
Would enrich so much in culture and steadfast results,
Perhaps not every moment,
But over the long ages you've been our best,
Oh, Spinnarette,
Twirl your arms back 'round this Earth,
Bring back a clear sky and sailcloth white,
For in truth, we need you once again.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 2001
By: Daniel A. Stafford
Author's Comments
I've been researching the history of windmills,
From ancient to modern times. The earliest references
go back to Egypt in the time of Moses, and are actually
found in ancient Persia, which is now known as Iran.
The ruins of these early mills still stand in the desert, and
writings hint at an Egyptian soldier bringing the secret of the mills
to Persia. All over the world, windmills supplied power for
milling grain, sawing lumber, pumping water. Holland was
reclaimed from the sea by using mills to pump water out over
the dikes over many years. Denmark had at one time over
100,000 mills in operation. In times of war, the abandoned
mills were brought back to life because fossil fuel sources
were cut off to the country. Millers would decorate the arms
of the mills to indicate weddings, births, funerals. Early
long distance communications were established by setting
the arms of the mill in various positions agreed upon, because
these signals were visible over great distances. Here we stand
today, having basically abandoned this technology over the
past century slowly in favor of polluting oil, ready to cook
the Earth with green house gasses. Windmills offer a way
to stop polluting our skies, as do other forms of renewable,
non-polluting energy sources. It's time we brought this old
technology back to life in a big way.
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