Hi everyone, I don’t know if my holiday snaps are metaphor friendly, but we can at least have a go at a poem. See the shot at the top of a mountain/hill in the Lake District, while we were stood up there a fighter jet zoomed past beneath us. We could have waved at the pilot had we heard him coming 
Over the moon under the bridge,
watch out for my wake.
At mountain’s peak I point and look.
on bars I hang upside up and upside down.
Ponies come to say hello
I ponder my catch and my wet feet,
then pull a rainbow from the sky
and play.
Is anyone brave enough to think up a metaphor? Or are we all still in holiday snooze mode (completely acceptable around here) 
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I’m still snoozing a bit. It’s my last week of my two week break prior to fall classes. I did attend a Scwbi critique group yesterday. So, sorta working …. Lots to think about after that meeting. I love the pictures.
Is that your illustration classes, Stacy? It must be great to have a live critique group.
like thoughts under a bridge
a watery ride from a puffy cotton hillside
we wore the river like wings
leaning against the wall of books
seeing the world from a different view
matching manes
galvanized gladiators
like shimmering, silvery treasures to be netted by stealthy statue
a pulsing palette of curly colors
Penny that is absolutely beautiful. I hope you are going to send poems like this for publication not just children’s poems.
Thanks, Catherine! I really was just listing a metaphor for each picture separately. After your comment, I went back and read it as if it is a poem. Interesting how that worked.
You are very encouraging!!!
Your trip looks wonderful!!!
I love wore the river like wings!
Hi! It’s been awhile, but I have been reading on and off.
But after a three week family hiatus from life (FUN!) and an interstate move (less fun but awesome now that the boxes are all unpacked), I think I’m ready to blog and blog again. 
Great vacation shots!
Oh how exciting, Wendy. That’s a busy summer! I look forward to hearing about your new surroundings.
Such sweet pictures! And I loved the metaphor poem.
Great pics!
Love your metaphors.
Thanks Lydia and Laura, I missed WriteOnCon so I’m looking forward to hearing all about it through you. The kids are still on hols here.
Monkey see, Monkey do! ? (monkey bars and upside-down pics)
Love your photos. Hope you had a great time. THis is the third time I’ve tried to enter this, as I enlarged your photos, and lost my copy:
hanging loose – bars
rain (bow) dance
I’ll eat it if you do (ponies)
They’ve got to be kidding (ponies)
I can fly – mountain
Erik and Pat they are super and sorry you had trouble commenting Pat. i’m glad the ponies didn’t really say that, Hannah probably would have thought about it lol.
Catherine, I don’t know if these are metaphors or not, but this was fun to try. Some of mine are cliches.
The boy is a trapeze artist.
He’s a monkey swinging from bar to bar.
The wader is a minnow-catcher.
The boy and girl are the life of the party.
The lake is a mirror.
The barge is a whale of a boat.
The people beneath the bridge are scavengers.
The ponies are statues at feeding time.
The boy is a mountaineer.
I love The wader is a minnow-catcher. That would make a great poem title. I love how different people see the pictures, it changes the whole holiday experience reading these.
Love the pictures and the metaphor is great. I need more coffee before I attempt one.
Don’t remind me of coffee, we had no milk this morning. Nightmare!
Her vocabulary was as annoying as, like, OMG!—like, whatever.
Not as sunshine-happy as yours, Catherine, but it’s early!
I love the poem.
I love that, August. Are you talking about the horses?
Very nice! Love the pics – looks like a lot of fun!!
Wonderful photos of your time away… I’m still in snooze mode.
Thanks Jemi and Elizabeth.
Creative metaphors and similes keep me reading any particular novel and the lack thereof makes me lost interest like money in a bank. I often stop a read and jot them down on 3×5 cards.
Hi Carl, I do that too when I remember. I tweeted a few metaphors from Unending Devotion because Jody is so good at new ones.