Wind-tousled sky
This is from a few lines of Seamus Heaney's prose in which he imagines how Philip Larkin might have approached...
Departing hope
A grimly compelling way to evoke a louring sky. Compare this 'departing hope' with Vasily Grossman's description of the rising...
Sky-reflecting lake
From a marvelous history of a garden, the idea of lakes made by man simply to reflect the sky.Â
...
Hollow like …
Did you ever think of the sky as being hollow? I like the image of its domed roundness as the...
Flat-bottomed clouds
Leigh-Fermor's continent-straddling meander encompasses pre-war scenes of breath-taking bucolic beauty. A decade after his peregrination this world had been turned...
Stone-smooth sky
This caught my eye simply because I can't recall having seen such a sky, and can scarcely imagine it. Clouded,...
Dove-colored sky
I imagine a soft-white snow-plump cloud cover, just before it shakes out its feather-flake down. Obsessed with sky, I will...
Iris-blue sky
When I think of such a sky, I think of Greece.
'The following morning, the weather had changed...
Wind-washed air
Elsewhere I have commented on a 'rain-washed sky', and here, wind-washed air, both yielding clarity.
‘The wealth of biological detail...
May you make the welkin ring!
A literary term for the sky or heaven, from Old English welcin meaning ‘cloud or sky’ and related to Dutch wolk...
Like a wound…
A stunningly original depiction of the pink streaks of dawn resembling a sky-wound.Â
'... as the dawn...
Love writingredux.com? Â Enjoy our sister sites:
www.foolsareeverywhere.com  I   www.nuannaarpoq.com  I  www.spyderceleste.com  Â
© Beatrice Otto 2023 - design & content unless otherwise stated - all rights reserved