Writing Prompt
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POEM STARTER
Start a poem with an onomatopoeia and end it with a different one.
An onomatopoeia is a word that mimics the sound of something such as bark, boom, or screech. These sounds can tell a story if used effectively!
Writings
C r a c k.
The sound of a neck snapped as punishment for this failed encore
C l i c k.
The sound of the gun that Saturday night that took your father’s life
T h u n k.
The sound of your head as you are knocked unconscious
S p l a t.
The sound of your sister as she lands on the cold paved ground
T i c k.
T i c k.
T i c k.
The sound of the bomb in your best friend’s luggage right befor...
Tick, talk. The clock strikes 12.
Lying in bed, all by myself,
Tick, talk. The clock strikes two.
Where are you? Is she there with you?
Tick, talk. The clock strikes three.
I hate it when you lie to me.
Tik, Tock. The clock strikes four,
Dear God, please let him walk through the door.
Tick, talk. The clock strikes five.
Are you laughing with her? Does she make you feel alive?
Tick, tal...
Blip
Blip
Blip
The icicle drips
Spring equinox ignored
The sun sits and mocks
Behind a cloud
The trees are bare and bored
How they had hoped
It would be time
For cherry blossom blooms
Instead skies gray
Til nearly May
An ever-present gloom
The calander said
It was an Equinox
Children huddle by windows
Praying for some respite
From freezing winds
From the constant barage of snow...
CRASH!
CLASH!
My eyes flash
To the source of angry destruction—
He throws plates
And adds to the painful weights
Holding fear captive within me.
gulp
hiss
I swallow my beating breaths
As shards of glass
Cut my hands and knees.
I silently make pleas
For someone to save me.
Buzz
Whoosh
He leaves the house
And me in broken pieces.
The dread lingering pushes me to rise—
Forces me to open...
Vroooom
The engine of
His white Corvette
Hums
Snowflakes pitter
And patter
On the windshield
A car nearby
Honks because
We're speeding
We don't care
We roar the
Engine and fly
The radio bops
In the passenger seat
I curl in a blanket
Slussssh
The ice and snow flies
Out from under the car
Beep beep
More angry drivers as we
Fly around the bend
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeech
| I wanted to make th...
Tic.
Tic.
Tic.
The sound of a bomb before it blows.
He didn’t care?
He didn’t try at all?
The fuck am I here for?
Didn’t love me, didn’t fight.
He let me walk-
I felt like a pirate.
Out alone on a plank.
Didn’t try to sway my mind.
Didn’t try to make me stay.
He grabbed ahold of my heart.
Ripped it out with bloody nails.
And laughed as I bled.
Blade in my back.
Heart on my ...
*Krackaboom!*
Behold a piece of hail
That I’ve brought inside
To the cosy house where
My family resides.
This piece of hail,
No bigger than a stone,
Can be the cause of many problems such as
Electrical outage, broken bones.
So behold! This piece of nature
So powerful yet small!
Beautifully imperfect,
A bumpy icy ball.
So examine it! Love it!
It’s something to adore.
Hey, where’d it go,
And wh...
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