Marvelous night for a moondance
A full moon tonight, an October night, and having recently listened to Van Morrison in a sudden burst of nostalgia,...
Slaves to the sun?
While for the most part these twin sisters are nothing short of bonkers, I liked when one of them questioned...
Fallen pieces of the moon
A haunting way to think of icebergs, moon-pieces fallen from the sky. Especially when lit at night by their mother-ship's...
A luminous grub
Never have I seen the moon likened to a luminous cocoon-spinning grub... wonderful.
'At night the young moon was like...
Wishy-washy Arthur
Mrs Irwine's all too insightful summary of Arthur's strength of character.
'She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the...
As pale as …
Henry Williamson is a master of metaphor and simile, and his slim book Tarka the Otter is as densely scattered with...
Moonacre Manor
This white horse flits in and out of the eponymous story: like the moon, illuminating when visible, but otherwise elusive. ...
Thought like a risen moon
This one puzzles me a little - the moon a sheet of silver calm yet the water turbulent, which would...
Sickle and circular
What a beautifully fresh alliteration for the usual 'wax and wane' of the moon.
'He saw the moon sickle and...
The moon shone upon the water below
I liked this expansive moon-scape and the detail of Wordworth keeping his curtains open to see it.
'The...
Melancholy-looking satellite
An intriguing triologism, part of an inventively astronomical metaphor to distinguish a man's head from his much larger body, so...
Vast moon-spider
Something wonderfully round and opalescent about these glowing pearls likened to the pearly eggs of a 'vast moon-spider'.
'... so...
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