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Question:I need a good simile for slow, but can't think of one. I don't want to use those common ones like slow as a snail, slow as molasses, etc. I want an original unique one for the poem I'm writing. My favourite simile = 10 points!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I need a good simile for slow, but can't think of one. I don't want to use those common ones like slow as a snail, slow as molasses, etc. I want an original unique one for the poem I'm writing. My favourite simile = 10 points!

hope these help:
"as slow as the sap trailing a tree"
"slow moving like the arctic glaciers"
"as slow as the rain clouds reaching the dessert"
"as slow as a hot summers day"
"as slow as a clock being watched"

Slow as a teenager going up to clean up his room.

As slow as a wet weekend

As slow as a day at work before going on vacation

Sorry, not much help.

As slow as my slow moments!!!

as slow as time

as slow as lonliness
or
as slow as a sleepless night

as slow as ' tommorow'
( this i say coz tommorow NEVER comes )

As slow as a bee, after a stinging.

As slow as a butterfly without wings.

As slow as leaf, floating in the breeze.

As slow as a parent sees their child grow.

Hope these might work for you. Thank you for reading this comment, and have a nice day.
AS slow as a morning, without a lark singing.

slow as clouds on a windless day

air bubbles rising to the top

evaporation or photosynthisis

as a dead man on a drum

the mountains movements