American Windmill Photographic Montage - 18”x24” Print

 

 

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How do you say "Windmill"?

MOINHO DE VENTO (Portugese), VEIRMØLLEN (Dutch), MOULIN A VENT (French), WINDMÜHLE (German),
MOLINO DE VIENTO (Spanish), VELTRJANAJA MELNITSA (Russian), MULINA A VENTO (Italian)

 

   

Who Has Seen The Wind?

Christina Georgina Rossetti
1830-1894

  Who has seen the wind?
   Neither I nor you.

  But when the leaves hang trembling,
   The wind is passing through.

  Who has seen the wind?
   Neither you nor I.

  But when the trees bow down their heads, 
   The wind is passing by.

 

 
 

Frank Medina, King of the WindmillsThis collection of “fair weather wind engine" photographs is dedicated to all who have seen the wind at playful work, and to those who love and preserve the mills everywhere – especially Frank Medina, “King of the Windmills” 1907 – 2005.

 

A Tribute

 

  He was King of the Windmills;
   How he loved those things,

  And if the good Lord will give Frank wings,
   You can bet he’ll use ‘em till Glory ends,
   Just givin’ tired ol’ windmills a second wind…

 

©2005, Rick Vanderpool
This poem may not be reprinted or reposted
without the author's written permission.


 

 

 

Perhaps if Ms. Rossetti had actually beheld a windmill in dreary old 19th century London, she would have written a longer poem…

Longer tributes to windmills proper have been penned by Hans Christian Andersen (The Windmill – Veirmollen –1865), Robert Bridges (The Windmill – 1890), and contemporary poet, Yvonne Hollenbeck (A Windmill On The Prairie – 2002); also Dusty Springfield’s soulful theme from “The Thomas Crown Affair” – The Windmills Of Your Mind.


 


Thanks to:

Wind Power Trail  •  The Windmill Farm  •  Southwestern Pioneer Windmill Association

 

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