Of kingfisher colours
This description of a Halcyon Kingfisher packs a rainbow of colour metaphors, from pink to green to blue and brown. ...
Glassy-blue shoreline
Glassy blue suggests bright blue eyes, and you can imagine the sea washing up azurely.
‘The islands are spread over...
Ocean-grey eyes
A lovely description of a woman's eyes but a woman who has a certain transparence to her, not a particularly...
Tar-dark hair
A surprising rendition of blackness, until you think of pitch-black. And here is Zeus again having to balance the requests...
Crab-green water
I think I can imagine the shade of 'crab-green', a deep dark place where this wily old conger eel escapes...
Grape-blue skins
The second time Laurie Lee uses this original idea of 'grape-blue' to describe a colour.
'... the slow talk of...
Glaucous-green field
I found myself wondering just what shade of green is glaucous, and learning that it is either 'a dull greyish-green...
Grape-blue landscape
A darkly overcast day with louring purple-stained clouds, and a storm brewing, until you read the context in which Lee...
Let the colour dry
An insight into technique by a superb poet, using a wonderful metaphor. Time fixes colours, in words as in paints,...
Purple-grey sea
Storminess at sea, as in the sky, can be purple-inked.
'Beyond the ragged horizon of the purple-grey sea...'
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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...
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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