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Title:       Simile
Date:        2022-04-24
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2022_apr24_simile/
Word Count:  160
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Again, another prompt I didn't have much time to dedicate to. This one
is based on one of my all-time favourite authors, Raymond Chandler. The
challenge was to write similes in his style. I really couldn't live up
to it! Here are the amazing ones listed at napowrimo.net

        
- A few locks of dry, white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers
  fighting for life on a bare rock.

- Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

- From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away
  she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

- She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

- He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
        

And here's my attempt.

As graceful as a cat across piano keys
She walked the strings of my heart
Like the trunk of a 100 foot tree
It melted apart.