SHORELINE DESECRATION !

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  FredPeyer January 29th, 2018 05:36

  Here in Hawaii, our shorelines are protected. On the other hand, while wind farms may not look that great, at least they help to reduce global warming. I guess we cannot have it both ways!

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 29th, 2018 09:29

    THANKS FRED ~ Because I a Scientist and an Engineer I find the onshore and offshore Wind Turbines very beautiful ~ but they must seem a little incongruous in Hawaii ! New Zealand has shot itself in the foot electricitywise ~ They need electricity but have banned NUCLEAR REACTORS (NIMBY ?) and now N & S Island are covered in Wind Turbines and the Maoris hate them because they are UNNATURAL ! It is the insatiable global demand for ENERGY that mars the landscape and causes pollution etc Yours BRIAN

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  Michael Edwards January 29th, 2018 06:55

  Life truly is a balance - wind farms are a compromise - great work Brian.

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 29th, 2018 15:45

    THANKS MIKE ~ Yes its a question of NO PAIN ~ NO GAIN ! In the 21C Planet earth runs on electricity ~ even for non-CO2 producing method of generation (wind ~ solar ~ nuclear etc demand a different price ! BRIAN

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  Christina8 January 29th, 2018 07:25

  Great poem, Brian! Our wind turbines/farms are on land, not in the water, but at least its good clean energy! Hopefully we will not "concrete it all" as you say, to our land, and leave it to our children. Sisterly hugs--Christina

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 29th, 2018 10:09

    Thanks CHRIS ~ As a ENGINEER & SCIENTIST ~ I find the Wind Turbines ~ very beautiful and practical ~ land or sea ! If we look at photographs of 150 years ago and paintings before that ~ things have changed visually for the worst but technologically for the better ! As MICHAEL says it is a question of BALANCE ~ Thanks for commenting ~ Ecological Hugs ~ BRIAN @@@@@@@

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  orchidee January 29th, 2018 07:50

  Good write Brian.

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 29th, 2018 15:52

    Thanks STEVE ~ You are old enough to have had "afternoon tea" in the Garden of Eden with my forebears ADAM & EVE ! So you know the Paradise Lost ! Yours BRIAN.

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    orchideeJanuary 30th, 2018 02:38

    Heehee thanks Brian. Yes, I remember the cucumber sandwiches, and 'More tea, Vicar?!' Adam and Eve were English, of course!

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  Fay Slimm. January 29th, 2018 11:12

  Ah - first my humble thanks for the dedication dear Brian - - the shore are suffering from all kinds of pollution and Cornwall is just one of the beautiful places where wind farms are appearing - -- a tricky subject where many will defend ocean windfarms as needed but where is the balance and where will it end. A powerful piece.

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 29th, 2018 16:05

    Thanks FAY ~ Pleased you appreciated the dedication. Wind Farms are mushrooming all over the World ! They are a bit like Coastal Caravan Sites you either LOVE them or HATE them ! As an Engineer I appreciate their beauty and efficiency but as an Ecologist I deplore their danger to bird life and their incongruous Visual Pollution ~ The East Coast looks like an SF film set "Invasion of the Propeller Men" although the picture I attached has a haunting BEAUTY ~ Yours as always BRIAN

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  Aislinn Wilson January 29th, 2018 13:58

  Curious where you live (or were at the time of inspiration) that helped form this poem?

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 29th, 2018 16:30

    Thanks for your question AISLINN ~ I live on the East Coast of ENGLAND and I am interested in COASTAL ERROSION and have written Poems on the Subject ! There is always a compromise involved ! Because we want to live and have holiday caravans on the Coast we have to prevent erosion. To do this we must build concrete sea defences which spoil the natural beauty of the coast ~ human intervention ! Also there are hundreds of Wind Turbines which seem to "multiply" which create a very unnatural SF seascape ~ see photo ! It was these two interests that spawned the POEM ~ OK ~ Yours BRIAN (UK)

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  ZIGGY January 29th, 2018 14:40

  hi there nice to read your words interesting take on the theme you give to us 'A blemish to the peace before .....that says it all for me ,,,,,zigs

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 29th, 2018 16:39

    Thanks ZIGGY ~ The Subject of a Poem can be "anything" ! I am an Ecologist and a Conservationist and the theme is the "Concreting of the Coast" (we want to live there but don't want to be flooded ~ so we artificially hold back the sea !) and we must have ELECTRICITY ~ without CO2 hence the maritime Wind Farms ~ Man blemishes everything in the name of PROGRESS ! Yours BRIAN (UK)

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  Goldfinch60 January 30th, 2018 01:59

  Very good write Brian. It is a balance between practicality and the wonder of nature, personally I would take nature every day but could I live in these days without the power to run my laptop with which to write these words.
  Home sapiens has a great deal to answer for.

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    BRIAN & ANGELAJanuary 30th, 2018 03:01

    THANKS ANDY ~ Some days I am glad I was born in 1983 because I missed the two World Wars and everything was in place and the "Computer Age" had begun ! But when i look at old photographs and paintings and listened to My Grandparents talking about uncluttered Streets and unpolluted Countryside I wished I'd been born in 1883 or earlier "Progress = Pollution" ~ Yours BRIAN !