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Simile and Metaphor

Willow and Ginkgo By Eve Merriam

The willow is like an etching,

Fine-lined against the sky.

The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,

Hardly worthy to be signed.

The willow’s music is like a soprano,

Delicate and thin.

The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus

With everyone joining in.

The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf;

The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull.

The willow’s branches are like silken thread;

The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.

The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair;

Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair.

The willow dips to the water,

Protected and precious, like the king’s favorite daughter.

The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete;

Like a city child, it grows up in the street.

Thrust against the metal sky,

Somehow it survives and even thrives.

My eyes feast upon the willow,

But my heart goes to the ginkgo.

ginkgo A deciduous tree (Ginkgo biloba) native to China and having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy

yellowish seeds with a disagreeable odor. The male plants are often grown as ornamental street trees. Also

called maidenhair tree.

Willow Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Salix, having usually narrow leaves,

unisexual flowers borne in catkins, and strong lightweight wood.

Simile And Metaphor Worksheet