See Also:NATURE

1. Primroses waving gently like lazy yellow gloves —George Garrett
2. All white scented flowers, like the perfume of love in fresh sheets —Janet Flanner
3. Blossoms covered trees like colored powder puffs —Rita Mae Brown
4. Blossoms … fell to the ground like confetti —Shelby Hearon
5. Bluebells like grey lace —Joan Aiken
6. Bougainvillae … large as basketballs —William Faulkner
7. The bud came apart … its layers like small velvet shells —Eudora Welty
8. Flowers burst like bombs —Vachel Lindsay
9. Forsythia … sprawling like yellow amoebae —A. R. Ammons
10. A host of crocuses stood up like yellow trumpets —Howard Spring
11. Irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass —Margaret Atwood
12. The jonquils glowed like candles —Helen Hudson
13. Lilies bunched together in a frill of green … like faded cauliflowers —Katherine Mansfield
14. The little red and yellow flowers were out on the grass, like floating lamps —Virginia Woolf
15. Magnolia flowers … like rosettes carved in alabaster —Edith Wharton
16. Oleanders with their pink flowers like something spun out of sugar —George Garrett
17. Open blooms like ballet-skirted ladies —John Steinbeck
18. Orange and yellow poppies like just-lit matches sputtering in the breeze —John Rechy
19. Out of the earth came whole troops of flowers, like motley stars —Felix Salten
20. The flowers burned on their stalks like yellow tongues of flame —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
21. Patches of tiny wildflowers … like luminous rugs on the grass —Gina Berriault
22. Pink roses blooming like flesh —Bin Ramke
23. The plants sprang up thick as winter grass —Annette Sanford
24. Roses, big as a man’s fist and red as blood —Eudora Welty
25. Rows of white flowers … throwing shadows on the azure-colored ground like trails of shooting stars —Gustave Flaubert
26. Small blue flowers like points of sky —Philip Levine

    The simile launches Levine’s poem,The Voice.

27. The tiny yellow flowers danced underfoot, like jewels in the dust —Mary Stewart
28. The tulip-beds across the road flamed like throbbing rings of fire —Oscar Wilde
29. Tulips … bright as the showers —Dame Edith Sitwell
30. Variations of flowers are like variations in music, often beautiful as such, but almost always inferior to the theme on which they are founded, the original air —Leigh Hunt
31. The yellow dandelions rose up like streaks of golden light —Guy De Maupassant