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Onomatopoeia Poems | Examples of Onomatopoeia Poetry

Onomatopoeia Poems - Examples of all types of onomatopoeia poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for onomatopoeia.
Clucking Hypocrisy
Chickens aim so high. Aha! That's what I thought too, When I hear you cluck....Read the rest...
Categories: funny, humorous, metaphor, onomatopoeia,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Ante-Meridian Verses on a Sleepless Night
In what to me now seems like ages I've only read some sundry pages; Lord Byron, a Romantic poet, was a dark wit; you'd just know it. But I (yes, I!) know much better, for I know it to...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, allusion, animal, garden, metaphor,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Jews Harp Twang
there is something about the simplistic shape of a conundrum an ancient voice in modern mouth in cartloads for the few to quell where ice finding comfort in flames many a throat bending breath singing like electric birds of paradise fully...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, dedication, feelings, music, nature,
Form: Free verse
If I Could Go Back In Time
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't really change anything. Changing things would be a crime, perfection, that's how I'd describe everything. I hate how we ended, but I love that we happened....Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, fear, feelings, film, for
Form: Free verse
A Word
In the midnight's hush, a word was whispered, A message destined for the Mooli's own kin, A task entrusted to the son's devoted heart, To carry forth, to the one he loved from within. Transformed, he became a modern-day...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, anti bullying, beauty, black
Form: Free verse



Dark Fight With the Midterm
Moving on into the night I struggle with ideas, Trying in desperation to fit words To a subject I don't even understand A train sounds its horn A sound born of forlorn lament A cry shorn of language Torn between anguish and...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia,
Form: Other
The Wind, Its So Alive, By Davieo David Rothchild
The Wind, Its So Alive, by Davieo David Rothchild The Wind It shoves It dives It screams It cries It Lies It blasts It laughs It farts It spooks It ambushes It roars It fights It dances It Prances It Rides The Wind Its so alive! The Wind, Its So Alive, by Davieo David...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, angel, desire, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skiing
Swoosh, woosh, down an alpine slope my skis glide, Kicking up mists of pristine, powdered snow. Impassioned by an evergreen hillside, In the breeze, my cheeks brisk with rosy glow. Now, nestled between mountain peaks I ride, Gazing, from the...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, adventure, beauty, fun, mountains,
Form: Acrostic
Wounds and Pain Poetrix
Wounds don't want scars. The pains don't want to fight back. They want nonexistence!...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, analogy, appreciation, onomatopoeia,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Merlin the Magic Cat
Merlin the cranky cat sat around getting fat. Wanting to be heard he mewed and purred. He yowled and howled and even growled all with the same result. He felt it quite the insult. He snarled and hissed What had he missed? He tried...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, allegory, cat, cute, magic,
Form: Personification
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Gallivant
"I wandered lonely as a cloud” Quote by - William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a gallivant Looking for some ways to fill up my days I came across a mighty swarm of ants And was completely blinded...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, analogy, appreciation, confidence, confusion,
Form: Lyric
Conkers, Bonkers
Off us two went, beneath the trees, that crackled and snappled in Autumn’s crisp breeze, our wellies slish-sloshing through the pelting rain, plip-plopping, plip-plopping again and again. The thunder it rumbled, and the wind it blew but on and on, the adventurers, two, rustled through...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, autumn, childhood, earth, friend,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Perpetual Forever
I am grateful for today and always: No matter my future outcomes Or what it holds for me. I can only live today; I cannot live for a future Tomorrow, it may never come I can only live; for...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, hope, metaphor, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Train Ride
Clickity clack, clickity clack the sound keeps coming back I remember the ride, had time to bide, as the train clattered along. We swished and swirled further beyond the burbling golden pond than I had ever been, affirmed my grin, as the train whizzed...Read the rest...
Categories: onomatopoeia, pain, scary, sound,
Form: Rhyme
The Rain and the Field
-Rain on its color craving to be gray... ...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, allusion, onomatopoeia,
Form: Prose Poetry

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