What Are They Looking at? simile
It’s working! In searching for them every day, metaphors and similes have started singing in my brain!
Morning Glory simile
Hand and hand. What’s something to compare that to?
Whitewashing Walnut Trees metaphor
Whoever thought that trees could get sunburn?
Tangerine metaphor
I used tangerine as a metaphor for my day.
I’d planned to spend it happily alone.
Instead, I shared part of my day with my friend.
Says the Tree in the Dog Park
I’m just a small tree
trying to be
healthy and green and alive.
Hello, Tree, Says the Dog
An apostrophe poem, also called a poem of address.
Dog Park Spring Quartet
Sometimes I get flashes on a topic. Pieces of a puzzle that don’t fit together with that satisfying click no matter how I look at the pieces.
When I Am a Dog
I was looking at Eli’s strong, long tail and suddenly I had a teeny case of tail envy.
Reverso Poems
x BLOOMING by April Halprin Wayland BLOOMING A poem grows from scattered seed in muddy soil— a muddle. x One green leaf, a vine meandering, winding around, climbing towards light. Me: gardening poetry. x Poetry: gardening me? Climbing towards light? Winding around? A vine meandering? One green leaf? x A muddle in muddy soil from […]
Earth Day: Overheard
… And look—a poem is drifting in.