Slate-colored snowbirds
Firstly, I like the idea of a 'snow' bird being the colour of slate. And being obsessed with colours and...
As blue and as vague as …
A beautiful image, blueness and vagueness likened to 'unmapped lakes', and these, referring to eyes, being misted over with the...
Glassy-blue shoreline
Glassy blue suggests bright blue eyes, and you can imagine the sea washing up azurely.
‘The islands are spread over...
Let the colour dry
An insight into technique by a superb poet, using a wonderful metaphor. Time fixes colours, in words as in paints,...
Parrot-bright shrillness
A lovely mix of visual and aural, with the shrillness of light and colour also evoking a parrot's cry. Â
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Of kingfisher colours
This description of a Halcyon Kingfisher packs a rainbow of colour metaphors, from pink to green to blue and brown. ...
Grape-blue landscape
A darkly overcast day with louring purple-stained clouds, and a storm brewing, until you read the context in which Lee...
Gamboge yellow
A gum resin produced by various East Asian trees, used as a yellow pigment and as a purgative in medicine....
The taste of colour
This is one of two metaphors I found in Hoban's book which mix two senses. Here visual overload leaves a...
Glaucous-green field
I found myself wondering just what shade of green is glaucous, and learning that it is either 'a dull greyish-green...
Cobalt polar lapis blue
A dazzlingly variegated Greek sky. It was under such a sky, which for me also includes hyacinth blue and lilac,...
Petunia-coloured horn
I liked this description of an old-fashioned gramophone loud speaker, which I associate with the image of a Jack Russell...
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