Sunday, April 15, 2018

If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 16, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about replacing power plants with solar panels.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

If each house had a solar panel
Built into its roof,
Incentivized so profitably
That few would stay aloof,

Each would be, just like a leaf,
A mini power plant,
Of which there would be forests that
Would furnaces supplant.

The Earth would breathe again, and keep
Its streams and rivers wild,
Its oceans free of thick, black gook,
Its deserts undefiled.

Oh, yes, there would be power plants,
But few and far between,
As urban forests sprouted leaves
That turned the landscape green.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ifeach.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Earth Day
April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

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