Olav Hauge's “We Don’t Sail the Same Sea” addresses having different perspectives:
We Don’t Sail the Same Sea
by Olav Hauge
We don’t sail the same sea,
though it looks the same.
Rough timber and iron on deck,
sand and cement in the hold,
I ride low, plunge
headlong through breakers,
wail in fog.
You sail in a paper boat,
your dream fills its blue sail,
so soft is the wind, so gentle the wave.
(Maybe Olav is right that "your" waves are gentle, but maybe he just doesn't know!)
A blog for the book IMPERFECT II: a poetry anthology for middle schoolers about perspective
When we've lost sight of the big picture, how can we help ourselves put things back in perspective?
Poetry can lend a hand.
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