The North Wind doth Blow?

Have you noticed? For all we’ve been focussed on day-to-day weather recently, it’s the temperature we’ve talked about, here in Europe at any rate (‘Phew it’s too hot!’), and the lack of rain (‘Oooh, my poor garden!). I realised, only the other day, that wind has been in short supply. No summer breezes, no brisk gusts, no sudden squalls.

Then Rebecca’s Monthly Poetry Challenge dropped into my in-box. She wants us to write about wind, employing the literary device of anaphora. No, I didn’t know what that was either. You can read about it here.

I could have snuck in and offered the rhyme that my children were brought up on.

When the wind is in the east,
’tis neither good for man nor beast;
When the wind is in the north,
the skillful fisher goes not forth;
When the wind is in the south,
it blows the bait in the fishes’ mouth;
When the wind is in the west,
then ’tis at the very best.

But that would be cheating.

So here we are …

This is wind: softly susurrating.
This is wind: sweetly sighing.
This is wind: breezily billowing.
This also is wind: galloping gustily;
roaring and raging; shrieking and storming -
destructive; disastrous.
Here today.  Gone tomorrow.
This is wind.

And it turns out that wind is not after all an endangered species.  Yesterday was properly windy, for the first time in weeks.

Author: margaret21

I'm retired and living in North Yorkshire, where I walk as often as I can, write, volunteer, and travel as often as I can.

39 thoughts on “The North Wind doth Blow?”

  6. You are so skilled at this poetry thing, I’m impressed! Love the accompanying photos too. But I could have done without the reminder of snow implicit in your choice of title 😆

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  11. Love the blowy photos and the beautiful poem. I had no idea what Anaphora is, but it works well. You are Rather Good at this Poetry Lark.

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  18. Gorgeous pictures!
    Here in the US Midwest, I’d say it’s the opposite. When I arrived 20 years ago, some summer days (and night) would be super hot and sticky, with absolutely nothing moving.
    Now, I would say within the last 5 years, there’s never a minute without some type of wind, at least a small breeze, even in the warmest days of summer. This summer was actually much less sticky too.
    And many more days with A LOT of wind

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