Promptly 4 and 5

Windmill

Windmill

Outside, the great, white-washed construction,
timber-hatted over brows and slotted windows
and four wide arms demonstrate directions,
proud landmark of the open fields attendant,
swinging in the summer’s wild and boisterous wind,
haughty to Quixote’s vain attack.

Inside, a clattering industry, a noise of turning,
wheels and cogs so ponderous and lumpish,
heedless in their measured track and timeless,
grind the stones in weighty grating, on and on,
fine the dust on floor and floating, bright and white
within the shafts of sunlight, specks inside the gloom.


Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 5 - 2023
Prompt: Windmill.