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Updated February 2006 SCATTERED POWDER-PUFF CLOUDS A CHILL MARCH WIND SCATTERS THE MORNING MIST NO CLOUD CLUTTERED THE SKY THE SKY HAD DARKENED TO A FAINT VIOLET BATHED IN RITUAL SMOKE THE AIR IS SATURATED WITH PRAYERS AND DREAMS THE WEST GREW DARK WITH STORM CLOUDS THE SKY PAINFULLY DARK COSMIC DANCE STINGING RAIN AND CHILL AUGUST WINDS THE WHOLE HEAVENS WERE IN A BRIGHT GLOW STALE AIR SUFFOCATES CHEST CRUSHING HEAT BLANKET OF DARKNESS THE SKY IS A MILD SEPTEMBER BLUE CLOUD FORSAKEN SKY THE AIR WAS THICK WITH ANTICIPATION PLUNGE INTO DARKNESS TOUCHED BY FADING WINTER LIGHT THE SKY IS BLACK AS INK OUT OF THE BLUE THE INFINITE SKY IS MOTIONLESS ABOVE THE HUSH OF THE EVENING ON THE EDGE OF A VANISHING AUTUMN CLOUD THE SHADOW OF THE RAINS HEAVY RAIN PATTERS ON THE (BAMBOO) LEAVES THE HAZE OF THE RAIN THE SCOWLING CLOUDS HAUNTED BY A DEEPENING GLOOM WITHERING HEAT BIG SKY COUNTRY A PICTURE OF QUIET SERENITY ON THE EDGE OF EARTH AND SKY KISS THE SKY WHEN STORM CLOUDS RUMBLE IN THE SKY THUNDER CLOUDS CLAP THEIR GIANT HANDS GRAY MORNINGS OF RAIN THE STORM CLOUDS THICKENED THE RAIN POURED IN TORRENTS LIMITLESS SKY; AS HIGH AS IT IS WIDE CLOUDS THAT COME AND GO WITH NARY A THOUGHT ON A CLEAR SPRING DAY OVERCAST SKIES ON A COLD AND BITTER DAY UNDER THE FIERCE JULY SUN A PALE SHADOW SMOOTH BLANKETS OF COLD AIR LAKES OF FOG EARTH MEETS THE SKY THE DAY WAS WARM AND HAZY BASKING IN THE GLOW A DELICATE PINK CLOUD DRIFTED AWAY THE LIGHTS DIMLY GLOWED IN THE DISTANCE SATURATED WITH COLOR SEARED WITH LIGHT HOT, WEARY AFTERNOON APPROACHING CHILL OF AUTUMN HOT SEPTEMBER MORNING COLD AND RAIN SWEPT DENIM BLUE SKY CLEAR SPRING AIR OPEN SPACES AND BLUE SKIES GRAY THREATENING MURK FRIGID JANUARY MORNING BITING WIND AND BLOWING SNOW PILLOWY CLOUDS HOVER OVER THE GOLDEN PEAKS MORNING MISTS RISE WITH SUMMER LAZINESS THE BRIGHT SPRING CHILL THE CLOUD STUDDED SKY THE SKY IS THE COLOR OF DIRTY DISHWATER THE AIR HAS A METALLIC BLUE GLOWS A MYSTERIOUS SHADE OF BLUE I GASP FOR BREATH IN THE BITTER AIR AS EVENING LIGHT WARMS THE BLAZING HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON THE FOG ROLLED THROUGH THE VALLEY A MORNING LIQUID WITH HEAT COOL OCEAN BREEZES CRISP MOUNTAIN AIR CLEAREST OF THE CLEAR WINDOW ON THE UNIVERSE EXPLODING STARS AND COLLIDING GALAXIES UNDER A DUST - RED SKY BAKED UNDER A FIERCE BLUE - SKY WHITE FOG BREATHED SLOWLY IN THE COOL AIR OF A SPRING TIME EVENING DAWNS SLOW PROMISE OF WARMTH THE SILENCE OF AN ARCTIC DAWN THE SKY WAS A BRILLIANT BLUE A NIGHT SKY HUNG WITH STARS IN THE SOFT EVENING LIGHT WAVES OF DARKNESS AN ETERNAL NIGHT THE CLARITY OF THE AIR THE CLOUDLESS SKY THE HEAT GAVE WAY TO DISMAL RAIN A BRIGHT CRISP AUTUMN AFTERNOON CLOUDLESS APRIL MORNING TURNED DAY INTO NIGHT AFTERNOON SHADOWS STRETCHED LONG AND THIN A SUNNY DAY IN WINTER SHIMMERING IN THE MIST ON A HOT SUMMER DAY THE TANGY SCENT OF SALT ONE FINE MORNING IN PALE OCTOBER LIGHT A RISING STAR AMID SILENCE AND SHIMMERING HEAT ON A BONE COLD NIGHT IN JANUARY PRISONERS OF THE WIND SOFT SNOW BEGAN TO FALL THE HARD EDGE OF WINTER THE AIR SMELLS OF THE SEA THE WATERS REFLECTED THE CRIMSON SKY A BLACK MOUNTAIN OF SEAMLESS STORM CLOUDS IN THE BRIGHT WARM AIR OF MORNING A COOL MIST LICKED MY FACE THE AIR IS STILL, DRY AND VERY HOT COOL, CLEAN AIR A RIVER OF CLOUDS THE SPARKLING BLUE SKY ON A DARK AND HEAVY DAY SO LOUDLY THE SKY SEEMED TO SPLIT ON A CRISP CLOUDLESS MORNING IN THE DIM LIGHT OF JANUARY SEA OF EMPTY SPACE A COLD BLUE SKY VEILED IN HAZE ONE MOONLESS NIGHT THE SKY IS DEEPER AND THE STARS ARE BRIGHTER IN THE DROWSY HEAT OF A SUNDAY AFTERNOON THE DAY FADES ON A CLOUDY DAY IN LATE SUMMER THE SMELL OF THUNDER HANGS IN THE AIR WANDERING THE SKIES SILVER-BLUE LIGHT OF THE ARCTIC DUSK WITH DARKNESS FALLING THE AIR WAS STILL COTTONY WITH FOG AN ENORMOUS BLUE SKY THE AIR IS QUIET NIGHT IS FALLING FAST THE AIR WAS FRESH AND COOL THE GRAY - BLUE HORIZON SCORCHING SUMMER DAY A DAY AS CLEAR AS SPARKLING WINE THE ODOR OF SPICES HANG HEAVY IN THE AIR HOT AS A HORSE RADISH HOT AND DUSTY SWEET CLEAN AIR THE MIST OF EARLY MORNING PICTURE-PERFECT DAY A VAST, EMPTY PLACE ROLLING CLOUDS BLANKET IN THE EARLY MORNING DARKNESS JOINED THEIR LIVES TO THE SKY TEARS OF THE CLOUDS DARK-GRAY SKY AT NOON THE SKY WAS STILL AGLOW BATTLESHIP GRAY SKY COLD-RAINY-FOGGY NIGHT WET AND BITTERLY COLD GRAY-STORMY DAYS DRUGGED BY THE HEAT SUFFOCATING SMOKE THE AIR IS COOL AND QUIET BIG SKY AND DEEP HORIZONS EARLY MORNING FOG BLOOD RED SKY DAZZLING JET BLUE SKY CRISP AUTUMN MORNING THE PERFECTION OF A SUMMER DAY THROUGH CURTAINS OF FOG THE FRIGID AIR WHEN THE SKIES FINALLY CLEARED THE LONG BITTER WINTER THE MORNING MIST SILVERY BLUE SKY IN THE STILL MORNING AIR SHOOT TOWARD THE SKY CRYSTALLINE NIGHTS BRILLIANT WITH STARS LIKE A GIANT STORM CLOUD OVER THE SEA EARLY MORNING MIST COVERED THE VALLEY THE HEAVY AIR THE WIDE AFRICAN SKY AS GRACEFUL AS THE MORNING MIST IN THE COOL MOUNTAIN AIR HAZY SUNSHINE AN ENORMOUS BLUE SKY THE DESERT SKY DEEP BLUE OF AN OCTOBER SKY PURE BLUENESS HANGING ON THE HORIZON THE SWEET AIR SOFTENED BY A GOLDEN HAZE A VEIL OF MORNING FOG HOT , STICKY SATURDAY AFTERNOON A COLORLESS (GLAZED) SKY A GREASY SKY THE WHOLE SKY CLOUD WRAPPED SKY STIFLING NOONDAY HEAT WINTERS PUNISHING STORMS FLAWLESS BLUE SKIES THE WIDE AFRICAN SKY THE EVENING FOG DRIFTED IN STONE COLD IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING THE SCENT OF APPLE FILLS THE AIR BONE COLORED SKY A GLOWING MIST THE AIR IS HAZY WITH DUST KICKED UP BY THE WIND CLOUDS SMOTHERED THE HILLS DRIFTING LIKE CLOUDS PEA SOUP FOG LOW HANGING CLOUDS THE CLOUDS LOOK SOFT AND INNOCENT SOGGY CLOUDS BRILLIANTLY CLEAR BIBLE BLACK DARKNESS STARS; SIGNPOSTS OF THE SEA THE MIST RISES GENTLY OFF THE HILLS THE SKY WAS FULL OF CLOUDS HEAVY WITH RAIN THE SOFT WINTER SKY LIKE WIND DRIVEN CLOUDS A WORLD OF SWIRLING GAS CLOUDS AND ACID RAIN CLOUDS SWIRL ABOUT LIKE GAUZY CURTAINS STEAMY AS A TERRARIUM A BRILLIANT DOUBLE RAINBOW SHEETS OF GHOSTLY GREEN LIGHT FLICKERED AND DANCED ACROSS THE SKY THE MIST WAS RESTING ON THE VALE LIKE DRIFTED SNOW INDIGO HUES DEEPEN AS DAYLIGHT WANES OVER HILLS AND FIELDS THE SMELL OF THINGS BOTH LIVING AND DEAD MIXES IN THE AIR DAY LIGHT SANK DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE DARKNESS THE FIERCE LIGHTENING IS SCRATCHING THE SKY WITH ITS NAILS A COOL BREEZE SOFTENS THE HUMID AFTERNOON HEAT THE CLOUDS SWEPT SILENTLY ACROSS THE HORIZON THE LIGHT FADED AND STARS GATHERED OVERHEAD THUNDER SCATTERS THE CROWS THAT ROOST IN THE TREE BELOW ME HOT BLUE OCEAN WITH SCHOOLS OF CLOUDS FLOATING ACROSS IT THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAY PICKS ITS WAY THROUGH THE HAZE A FIERY SKY SILENTLY USHERS EVENING INTO THE LONELY DESERT ONE BY ONE THE STARS WINKED ON IN A DARKENING SKY OVERHEAD A CRESCENT MOON HUNG IN AN ICE BLUE SKY
HOT BLUE DOME OF THE TROPICAL SKY INFINITE SHADES OF GRAY A WREATH OF ICE AND CLOUDS THE LONG MONOCHROME OF WINTER
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SIMILES
SMOKY WISPS CURL UP LIKE GENIES
LIKE A GIANT STORM CLOUD OVER THE SEA
DRIFTING LIKE CLOUDS
LIKE WIND DRIVEN CLOUDS
CLOUDS SWIRL ABOUT LIKE GAUZY CURTAINS
THE MIST WAS RESTING ON THE VALE LIKE DRIFTED SNOW
THE SKY IS BLACK AS INK
A DAY AS CLEAR AS SPARKLING WINE
HOT AS A HORSE RADISH
AS GRACEFUL AS THE MORNING MIST
STEAMY AS A TERRARIUM
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