METAPHORS Updated May 12th 2009 THE WIND CAME UP IN GUSTS A MIGHTY DESERT WIND THE WIND CARRIED THE SOUND THE FIRST WARM WIND OF SPRING LISTEN TO THE WIND THE ROARING OF THE WIND INSISTENT WIND BITING WIND AND BLOWING SNOW A WHIRLWIND OF DESTRUCTION FRESH SEA BREEZES THE WIND WAS CLEARING OUT THE FOG A HOT SWIRL OF WIND - DRIVEN DUST WIND AND RAIN RATTLED THE WINDOWS ON A WINDY NIGHT IN THE WORLDS MEANEST TOWN SAIL ON THE SUMMER BREEZE PUNISHING WINDS FRIGID, SHRIEKING WIND THE SWEET BREATH OF THE NORTH WIND WHISPER OF THE BREEZE TREES THRASHED IN THE WIND A STIFF WIND WINDSWEPT EXPANSE HOT DRY WIND FLUTTER IN THE WIND WIND TOSSED WHISPERS OF WIND A COLD BURST OF WIND A STIFF BREEZE THE POWER OF THE WIND BUFFETING WINDS A FITFUL BREEZE STIFF SEA BREEZE ALONE WITH THE WIND A CHILL MARCH WIND SCATTERS THE MORNING MIST SHAPED BY THE ROUGH CARESS OF WIND AND WATER THE WIND IS ROARING AND STRUGGLING AMONG THE BRANCHES A COOL BREEZE SOFTENS THE HUMID AFTERNOON HEAT THE WHITE CURTAINS FLUTTERED IN THE EVENING BREEZE THE WIND WAS HOWLING AND SHAKING THE WINDOWS DUST SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE AS THE WIND ROARED THE FRIGID WIND SCREAMED ACROSS THE WILDERNESS WINDS OF CHANGE START TO BLOW THE WIND WAS A LIVING THING THE WIND HAD A FEATHER TOUCH THE WIND TURNED MY HOTEL INTO A RIOTOUS ORCHESTRA THE WIND CAN TURN A TREE INTO A BLEACHED AND TORTURED SCULPTURE Get the complete list of "Windy Metaphors" found in "Basket of Dreams"

SIMILES Updated May 12th 2009 LIKE A WILD BEAST TANGLED IN A NET HISSED AND ROARED LIKE DRAGONS WIND AS SOFT AS SILK THE WIND MADE THE DOORS RATTLE LIKE SNARE DRUMS A GAP UNDER THE CORRUGATED ROOF WAILED LIKE A FLUTE THE WIND EMITTED A STEADY DRONE LIKE A BAGPIPE Get the complete list of "Windy Similes" found in "Basket of Dreams"

Love Poem Metaphors and Similes The mission of Colorwize metaphor and Simile Center is to provide thousands of free metaphor and simile examples to schools around the world. New metaphor examples and simile examples are added once a month. Use our metaphors and similes when you write your next poem, poetry or song. Love Poems that contain expressive words will have a much greater impact on your readers. 90% of the metaphors contained in this site are very good examples of metaphors. The other 10% are ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished: and flowery speech. This site contains more metaphors than similes. metaphor; A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare). One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler). simile; A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare). Definition of metaphor and simile from Dictionary.com Love Poem Metaphors and Similes