“The full moon filtered through the fabric of the tent like boiling coffee through a sock.”

#RobertoBolaño

#literaryquote #quote #simile

@darix @jon @Vivaldi

“like a good metaphor for the current world”

Don't use #simile when you're speaking about a #metaphor ;)

@ReadingFaithfully_org Curious about two things, if you happen to know:

1. Whether there's a similar or contrasting #simile based on #aptitude, #skill, or #talent rather than #position, #commitment, or #faith.
2. Whether there's a similar or contrasting #simile dealing with which qualities to cultivate within oneself. Maybe something to the effect of "When X is already well-developed, cultivate X still further; when Y is (already) well-developed, cultivate X first or together with Y, &c."?

Today I feel…

As unmotivated as this attempt at a simile.

#lowEffort #motivation #simile

The tentative sound

Shyness is the tentative sound of the orchestra tuning up before the symphony begins. It is a beautiful, fractured piece of music in itself. It is the orchestra attempting to find its shared intent and is over all too quickly if you ask me.

~ Nick Cave, from Issue #68

*hunh*

That’s a really striking simile. (That’s a simile, right?) This goes on the pile of things I wish I’d written.

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#68 #Hunh #NickCave #Simile

Driving the perfect length of Ireland,
Like a worn fold in a newspaper

—Medbh McGuckian, from "To a Cuckoo at Coolanlough"
https://textworksite.com/2009/05/09/a-saturday-woman-poet-medbh-mc-guckian/

#poetry #Ireland #metaphor #geography #IrishPoetry #MedbhMcGuckian #simile

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Night Watch (2002)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/5030…

#quote #quotes #quotation #cat #pratchett #terrypratchett #dexterity #lithe #simile

I made my first simile

Someday I Will Play a Duet with Garth Hudson
Justin Evans

#Poetry #JustinEvans #GarthHudson #TheBand #Simile #ExposedBone #Music

https://www.exposedbonemag.com/pieces/someday-i-will-play-a-duet-with-garth-hudson

@ReadingFaithfully_org What a wonderful #simile ! I especially like that #refinement or #purification is a clearly implied possibility without direct mention that that relies on the hearers' (or now more likely, readers') knowledge about gold so that they have to do the rest of the work themselves (and are thereby more likely to remember).

#fiveHindrances #5hindrances #hindrances #hindrance #sensualDesire #illWill #slothAndTorpor #restlessnessAndRemorse #doubt

#Simile #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Poems #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poets #PoetryCommunity #Language

Japanese haiku breaking the rules that other countries impose on it!

寒月へ導火線めく終電車

looking like a fuse
to the deep winter moon
last train of the day

Masayo Adachi
Magao #haiku collection, Furansu-dō, Tokyo 2024
https://fayaoyagi.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/todays-haiku-february-4-2025/#like-22865

#simile

Japanese haiku breaking the rules that other countries impose on it!

寒月へ導火線めく終電車

looking like a fuse
to the deep winter moon
last train of the day

Masayo Adachi
Magao #haiku collection, Furansu-dō, Tokyo 2024
https://fayaoyagi.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/todays-haiku-february-4-2025/#like-22865

#simile

Brava, Alexandra Petri!

From her spoof of Raymond Chandler's detective stories, in this (fun) book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/alexandra-petri-s-us-history-important-american-documents-i-made-up-alexandra-petri/18515349

#books #quotes #DetectiveFiction #simile #RaymondChandler #similiesaremypassion

(I'm guessing Pringles)

#douglasadams #simile #similesaremypassion #quote #quotation #quoteoftheday

As stealthy as...

#simile

Similes Countdown (longplay) for the ZX81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4D6qPLjUNY

#SimilesCountdown #ZX81 #Educational #EducationalGame #Edutainment #Education #Quiz #Similes #Simile #Longplay #AVCSoftware

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#LiteraryDevices #FigurativeLanguage #CreativeWriting #WritingTips #Metaphor #Simile #Personification #Onomatopoeia #WritingCommunity #Storytelling #WritersOfInstagram #EnglishClass #LearnEnglish #WritingInspiration

Discover the secrets to making your writing come alive!
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#PennedPossibilities 335 — Do you use metaphors in your writing?

Of course. Here’s one from my novella “The Temperance Ridge Runaways” -

“Johnny Cash was singing “Ring of Fire” when the truck shuddered like a hen that just got humped by a rooster.”

#simile #metaphor

Today's poem:

Clarity
- by Vievee Francis

Sorrow, O sorrow, moves like a loose flock
of blackbirds sweeping over the metal roofs, over the birches,
and the miles.
One wave after another, then another, then the sudden opening

where the feathered swirl, illumined by dusk, parts to reveal
the weeping
heart of all things.

#poetry #sorrow #grief #understanding #simile #recognition #VieveeFrancis #birds #red #sunset