Ice like …
A limpid description of bright, icy water, distillation of winter.
'In the center of large ponds, beneath the surface of...
Blue as deep as…
It seems some newborns have blue eyes even if later they take on other hues. Colour is one of the...
Hare-bell sea
A lyrical description of the Greek island of Thera, bursting with flowers and trees, and all sloping down to a...
Steel-blue plumes, gleams and feathers
Orlando has a love of beautiful feathers fallen from passing birds, as do I. She seems to be particularly partial...
Cobalt polar lapis blue
A dazzlingly variegated Greek sky. It was under such a sky, which for me also includes hyacinth blue and lilac,...
Eyes meeting eyes
Dorothea stuns a silly, wilful and selfish young woman with her powerful, radiant kindness and, having meant to disdain her,...
Iris-blue sky
When I think of such a sky, I think of Greece.
'The following morning, the weather had changed...
Of wine-blue water
The first time I read of the wine-blue Greek sea, I was baffled. However, I took a second translation to...
Ink-blue water
As the logos on this website testify, I'm an ink-geek, and love inky similes. Here is another...
The Nile as sapphire
A fortuitous phrase to describe the Nile's blue tracery through a dry landscape, like a life-giving vein.
Ink-stained sky
Yesterday a storm-front passed towards the lake (Léman) and France, and from our window, we saw its 'ink-stained sky'.Â
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Colours as emblems
This is an opening line in Christa Wolf's novel Till Eulenspiegel. Something about it haunted me, two colours flying as...
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