Metaphor Explorer Gifts

The Nature Writer Writer.

'So, how do we do this birds and bees thing?'

Bees to Honey.

And as the chrysalis emerged from its nest, she is forced to shed the final layers of her cocoon and brave the world at last.

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"Language."

Seeing the elephant.

Dove of peace trying to hitch a ride with a tank

'How can I be sure you love me? All lemmings leap.'

'With this constant near-death experience I live life to the fullest!'

This is your park, metaphorically speaking.

Changing paths: from high flying to smooth sailing.

Death chasing an old man on bumper cars.

'Stella, have you seen Harold anywhere? He may have a springboard with him. Old fool doesn't seem to realize that 'jumping over the moon' is just a metaphor.'

Naturally wary, it's almost impossible to catch a scapegoat.

"If my face were on TV, it would be a collection of small, colored dots, which your brain reassembles into a meaning image."

"Well, Millie, I guess this is it for us!"

"Give me the number of the Snappy Pop Bang Cereal Company, please!"

"Why is there so much emphasis put on our stupid race?" "I think people are more interested in it as a metaphor than as an actual race." "Slow and steady wins the race, that sort of thing." "That would explain why I always lose..." "Bartender, another please." "Maybe you should slow down." "You never learn do you?"

"There you are!"

"Where's the cat? Where's the tin roof? What the hell is this?"

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by."

“It's just a song. We don’t have to climb every mountain.”

Reading my Critics

The Thought Process.

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

"We had a brainstorm - I hope it's a brainchild."

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

Phoenix

"Wifey! Wifey! I've found the fountain of youth!"

When Tia Carmen says... "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner" it means "I can fix it with a hammer."

A Poem about Sand

Roger feels that there are only two inante instincts in men and women. One is satisfaction of biological needs...the other is self-actualization.

'Funny, I thought a near-death experience would be different, somehow.'

"You know what I think, babe? Seven on the Richter scale."