As permanent as …
The meringue as a simile for impermanence, which prompts me to invent a new sweet bake, the melt in your...
Stillness on the soul
A touching metaphor for stillness, not one of calm and security, but rather a stillness born of despair of escape.Â
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Swarming possibility
An unusual image, of possibility swarming like larvae, ready to burst into butterfly winged realization. Â
... to...
Off the peg thoughts
A fine metaphor for a mind incapable of original thought or phrasing. The lady has a stock of ready-made comments...
Stars like apples
Distant stars appearing so close you could reach up your hand and pick them, like apples in a tree. One...
Like a horse’s eye
A lively boy's eye view of travelling in a boat and looking through a porthole. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was a...
As healthy as …
A bracing, surprising simile for presenting something as a picture of health and wholesomeness. Here it is about reading material,...
A circular accent
Seamus Heaney describes a circle to convey the sounds of the Ulster accent, drawing an image of tangential consonants and...
The ground beneath your feet…
Having just re-read a beloved book about the Arctic, this resonates. The fear, loneliness and disorientation of a young girl...
The stream of feeling
Casaubon comes late to marriage and having decided upon it, dives headlong into the expected stream of feeling, only to...
The masonry of verse
A brick-solid image to convey a sense of Anglo-Saxon verse, implying it is precisely constructed and built for the ages. ...
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