Simile: Willow and Ginkgo
- Eve Merriam
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The willow is like an etching,
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Fine-lined against the sky.
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The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,
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Hardly worth to be signed.
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The willow’s music is like a soprano,
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Delicate and thin.
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The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus
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With everyone joining in.
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The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf;
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The willow is leathery as an old bull.
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The willow’s branches are like silken thread;
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The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.
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The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair;
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Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and
fair.
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The willow dips to the water,
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Protected and precious, like the king’s favorite
daughter.
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The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete;
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Like a city child, it grows up in the street.
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Thrust against the metal sky,
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Somehow it survives and even thrives.
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My
eyes feast upon the willow,
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But my
heart goes to the gingko.
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