Penance: March 6, 2011 - Metaphors

Prompt: Complete the following metaphors: a)Pale as ______, pale as _______. b) Reading the late Henry James is like ____________. c) I'm stroking the prow of the boat as if it were __________. d) The backyard trees breathed like _________. e) . . . a glass of water lives in your grasp like _________. f) I was born mute as __________.

Source: Writing Poems by Michelle Boisseau, Robert Wallace and Randell Mann

Response:

a)Pale as exposed earthworms, pale as appendicitis

b) Reading the late Henry James is like holding dryer lint still on your tongue - fighting not to swallow

c) I'm stroking the prow of the boat as if it were the vast bare expanse of the mantle in my parents' home

d) The backyard trees breathed like a pair of lounge pants - 100% Egyptian cotton

e) . . . the glass of water lives in your grasp like a cursor on a blank page

f) I was born mute as a pearl eraser.

Notes: I did warn that basically all my penance prompts would be poetry, right? Good.