{"id":21000,"date":"2012-03-30T21:47:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T01:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2012-03-30T21:47:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T01:47:31","slug":"i-hate-the-endless-sleepless-night-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2012\/i-hate-the-endless-sleepless-night-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"“I hate the endless sleepless night” (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love a sun burnt country<\/p>\n

I love its sweeping plains<\/p>\n

I can tolerate our years of droughts and our destructive flooding rains<\/p>\n

But I hate the sight of wind farms that in our rural lands abound<\/p>\n

I hate their jerking twitching arms and their swishing hissing sound<\/p>\n

I hate the way they blight our view of our once proud fertile soil<\/p>\n

I hate their ghastly ghostly hue<\/p>\n

Where farmers used to toil<\/p>\n

I hate the endless sleepless nights<\/p>\n

And the headaches that they bring<\/p>\n

I hate the ugly metal sites which used to bloom in spring<\/p>\n

Instead of trees and fields and flowers and clear blue open sky<\/p>\n

We see slicing blades and tall white towers where eagles used to fly<\/p>\n

So take these monstrous things somewhere and build them faraway<\/p>\n

Where our deserts have more room to share<\/p>\n

And the wind blows every day<\/p>\n

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Editor’s note<\/em>: \u00a0This was send to us by Sue Kennedy, Australia, with the following note.<\/p>\n

The original poem by Dorothea McKellor was first published in London in September 1908. \u00a0Over a hundred years later her great-nephew wrote these new words to this very moving poem.<\/p>\n

It makes me cry every time I read to it. Many thanks for all your updates; we look forward to getting them as we are fighting a proposed wind farm directly across the road from our place. In fact, we will be closer to the substation than the host farmer\u2019s own place. We will be looking onto it from our “entertainment area”! How good is that?”<\/p>\n

Sue Kennedy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I love a sun burnt country I love its sweeping plains I can tolerate our years of droughts and our destructive flooding rains But I hate the sight of wind farms that in our rural lands abound I hate their jerking twitching arms and their swishing hissing sound I hate the way they blight our view of our once proud fertile soil I hate their ghastly ghostly hue Where farmers used to toil I hate the endless sleepless nights And the headaches that they bring I hate the ugly metal sites which used to bloom in spring Instead of trees and fields and flowers and clear blue open sky We see slicing blades and tall white towers where eagles used to fly So take these monstrous things somewhere and build them faraway Where our deserts have more room to share And the wind blows every day   Editor’s note: \u00a0This was send to us by Sue Kennedy, Australia, with the following note. The original poem by Dorothea McKellor was first published in London in September 1908. \u00a0Over a hundred years later her great-nephew wrote these new words to this very moving poem. It makes me cry every time I read to it. Many thanks for all your updates; we look forward to getting them as we are fighting a proposed wind farm directly across the road from our place. In fact, we will be closer to the substation than the host farmer\u2019s own place. We will be looking onto it from our “entertainment area”! How good is that?” Sue Kennedy  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157,166,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}