Echoic Poems
What are Echoic Poems?
Echoic means to imitate natural sounds, like an echo. An echoic poem includes words that SOUND like the sounds we hear: swish, buzz, hiss, plop. In poetry, we call these words *onomatopoeia*.
Draft 1
The wasp buzzed through the wild wind;
Mountain ash leaves swished in the dusty air;
Thunder crashed and rain spatted
Waking the calico cat from her nineteenth nap.
Draft 2
The tarantula hawk wasp crawled
Slowly on the damp blades of grass
As the kids poked marshmellows
Into the hissing, flickering campfire;
Munching on her thirteenth s'more,
Miranda flopped back on the soft grass;
Owwwwwww! she screeched
and jumped up with flowing, salty tears.
We swished the wasp off her back
Guiding her into the house
Her feet scraping along the sidewalk
Losing her energy in gasping, husky sobs.
Mom plopped anesthetic cream
Quickly on the reddened bite
Soon, Miranda sighed a quiet
Hum as pain slowly, slowly subsided.
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