The Metaphor Thread

[bordertangoman]

is life a bowl of cherries, the world an oyster, or a lobster, or is everything going to heel in hand cart, or as likeley as a pig's ear turning into a silk puurse...

post your favourite metaphors and your bugbears here.....

and you may mix them with impunity, though you may induce the wrath of the gods...

 

[pygmalion]

Semi tongue in cheek clarifying question: Are similes allowed?

 

[bordertangoman]

Semi tongue in cheek clarifying question: Are similes allowed?

only if you can tell the difference...

 

[Ray Sison]

Time is a river flowing inexorably to the sea...

 

[pygmalion]

*restraining self* I'm so, so tempted to joke, but that almost always sets a new thread off in the wrong direction.

Long-term relationships are diamonds. They start out a lump of carbon, and certainly are flawed. But they become beautiful and precious when they endure the pressures that life sends their way.

 

[Ray Sison]

Her eyes are glistening jewels...

 

[Ray Sison]

I think it was Emily Dickinson who wrote that there is no frigate like a book. A lovely metaphor...

 

[bordertangoman]

I think it was Emily Dickinson who wrote that there is no frigate like a book. A lovely metaphor...

was she referring to the bird or a boat?

 

[bordertangoman]

*restraining self* I'm so, so tempted to joke, but that almost always sets a new thread off in the wrong direction.

Long-term relationships are diamonds. They start out a lump of carbon, and certainly are flawed. But they become beautiful and precious when they endure the pressures that life sends their way.

wit is allowed.....

 

[Ray Sison]

was she referring to the bird or a boat?

The sea-going vessel...

 

[Ray Sison]

Robert Frost, in "The Road Not Taken", compares one's life to a journey...


I like to think of a beautiful full moon as an island across an invisible sea...

 

[Ray Sison]

All the world's a stage...