METAPHORS Updated January 2009 THE FOG DRAPED RIVER WEARY ROCK AN OASIS RISING FROM A SANDY WASTELAND DANGEROUS UNCHARTED SEA BEYOND THE NEXT BEND IN THE RIVER WHISPER OF THE ROAR BEFORE THE BEND THE DEEP ROAR OF THE TORRENT THE HOLLOW SOUND OF THE FALLS OOZING WETLAND RACING THE RISING TIDE THE RESTLESS WATER IS BOISTEROUS ON THE SEASHORE OF ENDLESS WORLDS THE SEA SURGES WITH LAUGHTER WAVES SEND THEIR CHORUS OF VOICES TO THE HEART OF THE LISTENING EARTH SEA OF DESIRE MOON BEAMS FLOAT UPON THE WAVES COME TO THE EDGE OF THE SHORE THE SEVEN IMPOSSIBLE SEAS ON THE SHORE OF WHAT SEA ON THE BANKS OF GOLDEN STREAMS THE WILD SEA WAVES THE LIQUID MURMUR OF THE RIVER SUNLIGHT DANCED ON THE RIVER THE RIVERS CARRY THE LAND TO THE SEA BIT BY BIT PLACID BROWN WATER THE DANCING SEA SURGING GREEN GIANT OF A RIVER THE RIVER WAS FROZEN IN SILENCE AS AUTUMN MISTS DRIFTED UP THE RIVER THE SOUND OF THE SEA BREAKING ON THE ROCKS STEEL BLUE SEA CRYSTAL BLUE WATER PULSING CURRENT RIPPLES AND ROLLS INTO THE MISTY LIGHT BROAD - SLOW - AND SHALLOW QUIET CREEK IN THE WOODS BATH WARM - CRYSTAL CLEAR SUN SPLASHED WATERS FLOATS ALL HER SECRETS OUT TO THE SEA MORNING MISTS RISE WITH SUMMER LAZINESS TUMBLING MOUNTAIN CREEKS EMERALD JUNGLES OF GIANT KELP SWOLLEN RIVERS GUSH FROM THE MOUNTAINS I HEAR THE SOUND OF LAUGHING WATER WATER THE COLOR OF PEA SOUP THE BURBLING OF WATER IN MOTION OVERFLOWING ITS BANKS AN OCEAN WITHOUT SHORES ON THE HIGH POLAR SEAS THE BATTLING HIGH WIND AND WAVES COLD - WAVE - TOSSED EXPANSE ELECTRIC - BLUE LAGOON UNFETTERED FLOW CRASHING MOUNTAIN RAPIDS SILT LADEN PRAIRIE CURVES SOUND OF CRASHING WATER UNCOILING OUT OF THE HIGH COUNTRY A RAGING STREAM A WILD RIDE TO THE SEA MURKY WATERS BRAIDED RIVERS SUGAR WHITE BEACHES A FIELD OF BLUE CONSTELLATIONS OF LAND IN A UNIVERSE OF SEA MILES OF TRACKLESS SEA BLOWN AWAY BY THE SWEET PACIFIC BREEZES THE SEA OF THE MOON LOVELY HILLS AND TURQUOISE WATERS BIG TWO HEARTED RIVER THE TANGLED RIVER THE RIVER WAS CLEAR AND SMOOTHLY FAST ROCK-STUDDED WHITE WATER THE GREEN WET WOMB OF THE. THE TURQUOISE COAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CARMEL BROWN RIVER A CREEK RUNS MUDDY AFTER THE RAIN AT THE RIVERS EDGE DARK DEEP WATERS THE WATERS REFLECTED THE CRIMSON SKY ON ITS WAY TO THE SEA BLUE CHAMPAGNE MASTER OF THE DEEP IN THE HEART OF AN ENORMOUS LIQUID SAPHIRE WIDE OPEN SEA COOL SWEET WATERS STORM TOSSED IMMENSITY ROMANCING THE SEA SMOOTH, SWIRLING RIVER CRYSTAL CURRENTS WINDING STREAM WHITE CAPS DANCING ON THE WAVES SAIL ON THE SUMMER BREEZE THE HIGH SEAS THE SOUND OF THE SEA A VAST EMPTINESS OF SEA FOAMING SEAS SPARKLING WATER LUMINOUS SEAS JOINED THEIR LIVES TO THE SEA MYSTERIES OF THE SEA SPARKLING SEAS A MUSICAL BROOK FOLLOW THE RIVER TO THE SEA THE GRAY- GREEN OCEAN A VAST, EMPTY PLACE COBALT BLUE WATER AN UNFORGIVING PLACE THE SUN SPECKLED SEA THE WILD INDIGO SEA THE TIDE IS OUT MILKY GREEN WATERS THE DARKENING WATERS DARKNESS OF THE OPEN SEA THE ETERNAL WAR OF SEA AND SHORE A SEA OF SHARKS OASIS OF LIFE COLD DARK WATERS A SMALL SPARKLING STREAM ON THE EDGE OF THE SEA HIDDEN BELOW THE WAVES BLUE OBSCURITY THE ECHOING SEA HIDDEN BENEATH THE SEA FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE SEA THE OPEN SEA DIAMOND CLEAR WATER UNCHARTED WATERS THE MISTY BLUE-GREEN WATER DARK GREEN WATERS A SMOOTH WINDLESS SEA UNKNOWN WATERS DIAMOND BRIGHT WATER DRINK THE RIVER DRY UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS DRY WATERY WORLD THE BROAD - OPEN SEA THE WHISPER OF THE WAVES SPARKLING BROOKS WHERE THE RIVER ONCE FLOWED THE RIVER RUNS BROWN AND SLOW SHEETS OF SHINING WATER THE SOUND OF THE SEA THE OCEAN HAS A PALE, BLUE-GREEN CLARITY UNWRINKLED SHEET OF BLUE THE CRASH OF THE SEA THROUGH THE MIST THE DISTANT WHOOSH OF A RIVER HAUNTED BY THE SOUND OF THE WAVES SWIFTLY FLOWING RIVERS OASIS OF CALM WATERED BY SPARKLING STREAMS THE SEA HAS NO FENCES WHISKEY DARK WATER AN ENDLESSLY RECEDING HORIZON FLOATING IN A VAST SWEET MYSTERY BLANK AND SHIFTING BLUE STREAMS WEAVE THROUGH THE JUNGLE WAVES CRASHED INTO RAGGED CLIFFS, SCULPTING NEW CURVES INTO SHAPED BY THE ROUGH CARESS OF WIND AND WATER THE SEA FURNISH US WITH ALL THINGS NECESSARY FOR LIFE. SMALL MOUTH BASS LEAPING AT CLOUDS OF BUGS IN THE SUNLIGHT WIDE, MURKY, FAST, FORBIDDING HIGHWAY FOR SHIPS JOINING MOUNTAIN TO PRAIRIE AND PRAIRIE TO THE SEA THE ROARING TURQUOISE RIVER TUMBLED THROUGH THE VALLEY FAR OUT OVER THE SEA - THE SUN WAS A WATERY GLOW GLASSY WATERS SILVER MEANDERING OF A NAMELESS STREAM A MAZE OF ISLANDS COLD BLUE GLOOM ICE CUBES THE SIZE OF VW BEETLES Get the complete list of "Sea and river metaphors" found in "Basket of Dreams"

SIMILES Updated February 2006 THE RIVER FALLS UNDER US LIKE A TRAP DOOR RIVERS THAT UNCOIL LIKE PYTHONS WINDS LIKE A RIVER WINDS LIKE A SNAKE THE RIVER WAS LIKE SMOOTH PAPER BEING SHRED ON THE ROCKS THE WATER GLOWED - AS IF LIT FROM WITHIN AS STILL AS THE SEA THICK AS MUD Get the complete list of "Sea and river similes" found in "Basket of Dreams"