Pithy, evocative imagery in three-legged microcosms of meaning. Having coined the term ‘triologism’ I believe this to be the only collection of these tum-tee-tum phrases in the universe. Updated Tuesdays … triologism day!
Bright-tinted shrubs
Autumn alights with bright-tinted shrubs. And yes, you need to be on the alert to perceive their full beauty.
'A...
Brown-bronze wood frog
Thoreau seems even more partial to frogs than to fungi, and observes them with tremendous patience and sympathy. I liked...
Torment-filled pupil
This doesn't refer to a struggling school child but rather the traumatic last moments of a horse in a war...
Spring-time clothes
A thrilling image of glittering northern waters in a moment of calm and gentleness.
'Crossing from Scalpay in...
Strategic consideration
The wild card of ancient Greek military planning was the existence and randomness of divine intervention. You never knew which...
Fresh-gathered roses
This is a bright spot in a serious story, a guest room scented by roses crushed into water to release...
Black-coiffed crone
An ancient if none too respectful image of elderly and slightly sinister women. However, their manifest suffering from sea-sickness removes...
Sea-like sound
I like the description of a sound in the trees resembling the sea; land and water confounded.
'There...
Tree-tufted islands
Trees as tufts - trying to imagine how they would look. I imagine wind-blown short trees, dwarfed and compacted by...
Lead-coloured cloud
This ‘lead-covered’ cloud symbolises the mood of the family as they approach the ‘grim North’, and soon they smell 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...
Apple-cheeked children
It's an obvious one, but still a charming picture of innocence and health, apple-cheeked.
'I'm sure I never saw a...
Hollowed-out pineapples
Having had refreshing cool drinks out of hollowed-out coconuts, I like hearing of the equivalent in pineapples, and of course,...
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...
Sea-battered island
A perfect spot for a hermit, even more so in the seventh century.
'... a hermit living on...
Reed-fringed spinney
Many years since I heard the word 'spinney'. I remember it as a secret, hidden spot in the local park...
Ocean-grey eyes
A lovely description of a woman's eyes but a woman who has a certain transparence to her, not a particularly...
Seneca the Stoic
Erasmus' triologism to describe Seneca as a dyed in the wool Stoic. I prefer the alliteration of 'double-dyed'.
Scavenger-like faculty
No detail is too small to be filed in Steerpike's sharp, archival mind; all may prove useful for eventual manipulation,...
Marmaduke’s realm
The kitchen is the domain of Marmaduke Scarlet, together with the stone-vaulted larder where he stashes his culinary supplies. This...
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Interesting! Your triologisms remind me of the two-word kennings in Beowulf.