Shock-headed flowers
Two lovely names for a dandelion-daisy-ish yellow flower with spokes poking out like a leafy wheel.
'The shock-headed flowers of...
Petunia-coloured horn
I liked this description of an old-fashioned gramophone loud speaker, which I associate with the image of a Jack Russell...
Birthday blooms
Summer arrived just in time for its own birthday this year, but what a flurry of colour and bursting of...
System in everything
A curious exchange between Anna Sergeyevna and Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Somehow, Anna's crisp response chills the romance...
Open to the climbing sun
A lovely image conveying the age-old human yearning to be closer to God or heaven or some other source: a...
Life lived as a rose trellis
One of Rilke's translators used this surprising and touching metaphor to describe him. I like the idea of being -...
As close as … (ii)
What would you use for such a simile?  Two peas in pod? Something else? I liked this use of petals...
Half-blown rose
Something touching about the 'half-blown', that moment in a rose's beauty when it is heavy with the weight of its...
Yellow-flowered silverweed
Looking up this flower (potentilla anserina), I discover the identity of a mystery plant I bought from a seedling community...
Like frost and flowers
An alternative alliteration for describing people as being like chalk and cheese. Â Feel free to use it to inject some...
Borne on the evening breeze
In the midst of winter, on a drab-draped day, the memory of flower-garden odour borne on an evening breeze is...
Blossom-carpeted meadows
Flowers are key to this slim, barely known book. I found a second-hand copy with lovely black and white illustrations,...
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