Ponds and Streams

See Also: NATURE, SEASCAPES

1. The black lake was shimmering like ink —Richard Russo
2. Light spread across the river like an oil spill —Jay Parini
3. Pond … covered with rain like sequins or crinkled up with wind like a watered silk —Joyce Cary
4. River … like a sheet of polished metal —Boris Pasternak
5. The river in evening like a dirty window —Delmore Schwartz
6. The river looked like an eye which for some reason or other was growing darker and darker as happens in love at the onset of ecstacy —Bertold Brecht
7. The river now all crinkled like tinfoil —Delmore Schwartz
8. The river raged by like a forest fire —Edward Hoagland
9. A river ran there as clear as the air itself, and the fish in it were like gold and silver —Hans Christian Anderson
10. The river … smelled like a packing house for fish, but it looked like the melted, dark eyes of a million girls —Hortense Calisher
11. The river was brown and bubbly … like cake icing —Lee Smith
12. The stream was like a silver magnet that pulled them across the prairie —Dorothy Francis