Perspective – The Wind

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I see everything and
I have seen everything that ever was
I toss the world – leaves, your hair, your papers
your clothes, your kites and I laugh.
I push sails out to sea and turn
mighty turbines, I move the ocean,
lift sand and send it flying,
scatter seeds, befriend the birds
and change the earth.
No man can tell me where to go,
thunderstorms and the slowly turning
earth drives me, pole to pole.
Nothing escapes me, in my fury
I destroy, break trees, tear apart houses
and there is no power to stop me.
But on a sunny day, when the sweat beads
on your forehead, I will caress you
with a cooling kiss and you will bless me.

Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels.com

Copyright ©2025 Lisa Paul

Bjorn is the host of d’Verse Poets Pub and he challenges us:

So today I would like you to challenge yourself and try to write from a different perspective or maybe even several perspectives than what you normally do. 

You can do this by either writing something totally new or if you prefer, take an old perspective written from for instance first person singular and change it to third person.

Or write a poem about a collective: we. Do you need the otherness of they to define that collective.?

What do you get? How does it feel? and most importantly how do you think it will affect the reader? is the reader included or excluded?

If you feel like it you may want to combine the perspective with that of personification and write from the perspective of an abstract object such as a baloon.

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37 thoughts on “Perspective – The Wind”

  5. I like all the movement in this poem; just like the wind, it can’t keep still: tossing, pushing, lifting and scattering! I love a cool breeze, but wind is indeed powerful and destructive too. And what a great choice of photo to illustrate it, Lisa.

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    1. Oh my! You’ve got my imagination working, wondering…. It seems to me that the storms are just getting worse and worse. We have had a few storms with straight line winds over the last 2 or 3 years and they have been devastating. They break trees in half. Send roofs flying. The damage is unbelievable. Power lines down everywhere and the power was out in summer of 2024 for 7 days, it was awful!

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  13. The wind! The wind! Your poem is a great personification of his/her strength and great power .. to do evil, to be a thing of beauty when we swelter in the sun. Cheers!

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