“Sometimes one will disappear into himself / like a ram charging a mirror.”
– Kaveh Akbar
The Simile Museum
Tag: Poetry
April 4, 2016
“Words are like leaves, some wither every year”
-Horace
March 25, 2016
“The future isn’t what it used to be. Even Bowie thirsts
For something good and cold. Jets blink across the sky
Like migratory souls.”
-Tracy K. Smith
January 29, 2016
“When the clouds part
like stupid lovers,
I close my eyes and press
myself against
the eucalyptus tree.”
-Erika Sánchez
January 17, 2016
“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm -”
-Emily Dickinson
December 16, 2015
“And Mother, startled, shook
out a dress with big peonies splashed like dirt
across the front, as if she had fallen
chasing after me in the rain.”
– Susan Mitchell
November 7, 2015
“I pass, like night, from land to land.”
-Samuel Coleridge
August 20, 2015
“Darkness fills her like a carbohydrate.”
-Daniela Gioseffi
July 17, 2015
“…someone somewhere
heard the gossip of exotic birds
and passed it on in the night
to another, sleeping curled like an ear…”
– Mary Ruefle
April 29, 2015
“God and I have become like two giant fat people living in a tiny boat.
We keep bumping into one another and laughing.”
-Hafiz
The Simile Museum 