Some Similes Suck!

a Snippet, in 3 lines ...

Life isn't like anything!

It's a damned one of a kind!

Born, then poof! No more.

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In traditional Senryu/Haiku format

Reviews

[Green]

I definitely agree that some of them do suck. Just because it sounds nice and is poetic doesn’t make it a good one. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with coming up with them though. Blah blah blah something about struggling to make sense of our human existence and all that.

[Dylan Macadham]

I agree, Green :)
... was just havin' fun makin' light of Heavy😅

[Dylan Macadham]

Hi Vol, I'm not really down on 'Life' similes, just funin' :)

[Vol]

Dylan...
As a measure of time (one of my favorite thought-trails) |"poof" should be more widely recognized. I was born in 1949, and POOF!
Vol

[John the Baptist]

Unless, of course, reincarnation is real.

[Dylan Macadham]

haha, Reincarnation gives me second thoughts😅

[Vol]

Hahahahahahahaha!

[Neville]

I once wrote something simile but in prose which took a whole lot longer to understand :)

[Dylan Macadham]

"Propose" as in an Idea, Marriage request, or a Typo?😅 ... Whichever it is, thanks Pal :)

[Neville]

you are of course, most welcome

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Maybe. Maybe not. I like this quote from Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame, " Life is a banquet, my dear boy, and most poor suckers are starving to death." I enjoyed your Japanese art form offering.

[Dylan Macadham]

haha, correct me if I'm wrong, Fabian, but isn't Rosalind's quote a Metaphor?😎
... I get them mixed up too! Lif'e's like that!🤣

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I'm assure you I'm not confused, merely stating an opinion. Whether simile, metaphor, comparison or other descriptive device shouldn't matter so much as the logical argument of the pronouncement. We don't really know what life is like because we've nothing to compare it to but death which is a determined opposite. Alternate realities notwithstanding we can't compare life but that hasn't stopped the greatest historical minds in literature and art from making the effort and a great many of them are more than worth reading.