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Onomatopoeia is using words that sound like the noise they represent. Here is an exercise in using onomatopoeia.
His snores rattle pictures on walls. Great bellowing growls on inhale. Swooshing steam escapes on exhale. Mesmerizing in rhythm -- growl, swoosh, growl, swoosh -- the raucous rocking boat of sleep, vibrating twilight hours into morning.
Growl, swoosh, growl, swoosh, SNOP!
A break in beat.
The house holds its breath.
The hall clock pauses.
All matter in the universe
outside these walls hangs
in limbo,
motionless,
without purpose.
Snop, snop, snop… growl, swoosh…
time begins again and the house exhales.
This is the music of my childhood, the assurance that my father is there. In his absence, there is only the metallic ticking of the clock to fill the night. Snapping the seconds away – snap, tick, snap, tick. Pinging echoes careening like radar against every sharp corner of the house, amplifying the void. Snap, tick mocks his absence and invites the night to darken. Growl, swoosh spins the world and keeps the demons away.
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