Posts from the ‘Metaphor’ Category

Jul 2

“Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.” ―Cameron Bright

Even without the Japanese sound effects, a 17th-century haiku named for an amphibian, makes a big splash.

Old pond! / a frog jumps in / water’s sound

―Frog haiku by Matsuo Bashō; English translation by Robert Aitken

Jun 28

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” ―Arthur C. Clarke

Today’s lesson: The intellect is a classroom and wisdom a playroom.

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”

―Joseph Chilton Pearce

Jun 27

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“If there is one place in the world people will want to come back to when they can travel again I honestly believe it will be Venice.” ―Mauro Tochi, Gondolier

Unlocking the sea gate, we slide into the lagoon of a hundred islands.

“…to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.”

―Ellen Meloy

Jun 24

“Sometimes I find I’m wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.” ―Ridley Scott

A good laugh splits your sides and face. So your guts and brains fall out.

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

―Edward de Bono

Jun 23

Science Detectives Find Eden Where Adam and Eve Left It

Ages before scientists traced the biblical Garden to the dark continent, Michelangelo painted “The Creation of Adam,” as if the first anatomically modern person were as pale as Pope Julius II, who paid for the job.

“The old master painter from the faraway hills
Painted the violets and the daffodills”

―Haven Gillespie

Jun 18

A poem with puns in praise of a lucky lamb in a pastoral picture, and words a good shepherd lives by

A Lamb in Chic Clothing

Branded on a range not on a grill / Cooler in a pen than a pan

“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” ―Tiberius

Jun 13

“Stand a little less between me and the sun.” ―Diogenes

From the ceiling beneath our feet, the skies seem frayed as faith at the end of days.

“If you’re looking down at Earth, you’re looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.”

―Buzz Aldrin

Jun 9

“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.” ―Phil Ochs

When a Peacemaker was a lawman’s six-shooter, trigger fingers made peace signs.

“And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.”

―Josephine Baker

Jun 5

“We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?” ―John Kenneth Galbraith

Amazing science stories let us explore worlds far, far away, and discover strange life forms.

“Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.”

―Octavia E. Butler

Jun 2

Posts from the ‘Metaphor’ Category

Even without the Japanese sound effects, a 17th-century haiku named for an amphibian, makes a big splash.

Old pond! / a frog jumps in / water’s sound

―Frog haiku by Matsuo Bashō; English translation by Robert Aitken

Today’s lesson: The intellect is a classroom and wisdom a playroom.

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”

―Joseph Chilton Pearce

Unlocking the sea gate, we slide into the lagoon of a hundred islands.

“…to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.”

―Ellen Meloy

A good laugh splits your sides and face. So your guts and brains fall out.

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

―Edward de Bono

Ages before scientists traced the biblical Garden to the dark continent, Michelangelo painted “The Creation of Adam,” as if the first anatomically modern person were as pale as Pope Julius II, who paid for the job.

“The old master painter from the faraway hills Painted the violets and the daffodills”

―Haven Gillespie

A Lamb in Chic Clothing

Branded on a range not on a grill / Cooler in a pen than a pan

“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” ―Tiberius

From the ceiling beneath our feet, the skies seem frayed as faith at the end of days.

“If you’re looking down at Earth, you’re looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.”

―Buzz Aldrin

When a Peacemaker was a lawman’s six-shooter, trigger fingers made peace signs.

“And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.”

―Josephine Baker

Amazing science stories let us explore worlds far, far away, and discover strange life forms.

“Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.”

―Octavia E. Butler

At the arts gymnasium of the Classical World, an Aristophanes ushers you up the steps to the highest stage, where some Ovid shoves you off.

“If you ever have a kid who doesn’t know what to do, stick him in art school. It’s amazing what evolves.”

―Ridley Scott

“The old master painter from the faraway hills
Painted the violets and the daffodills”