A piercing sound
A high, piercing pipe sound likened to midges harassing the air, this simile makes me think of the horrifying tsssssssss...
Poems for my family 007 – Carlos Williams
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
The lovely opening line of this poem by William Carlos Williams creates a...
Simile of sin
A pithy simile for someone sin-sunk, cleverly playing on the double meanings of 'raddle'. .Â
Soaked in...
A nosegay spurned
A touching simile to describe a young girl who feels rejected by the world.
I was like...
The honey of knowledge
This is from the first of a trilogy of memoirs by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), whose life began in Tsarist Russia...
As healthy as …
A bracing, surprising simile for presenting something as a picture of health and wholesomeness. Here it is about reading material,...
Sweet-running river
Flowing like the sweet-running river it evokes, a meandering metaphor for Hector's strength and movement, likened to a thoroughbred horse...
Of vanishing rain
A simile for evanescent rain, likened to an out of character and fast recalled error, like those social media messages...
The threads of love
A simple yet rich metaphor for love, and I liked the multiple threads of different colours - the various skeins...
Accordian-like adjustment
An obvious though unusual and simple metaphor for a flexible adaptation to things.
Source: Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams, p. 213
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Stormy tea trays
We’ve had some rotten weather recently, rain-grey clouds rolling over us like dismal tumbleweed, so this resonates.
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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