LPiA-24 Nov. 29

[Tiger the Lion]

Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 29
Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a New Reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for the month of November. (or one, or six, or fifteen) Prompts may be revisited at any time. All members are welcome.

Topic : Write a poem inspired by an animal noise. (vocalization)
Form : Any
Line requirements: 8 or more

Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish. 

Questions?

[Mark A Becker]

she sang
in animal language-
with soft purrs
and whispered sighs

her voice
would hypnotize-
you could see it
in men’s eyes

[CRNDLSM]

The morning of her birthday
Excited to see her friends
Spinning in a chair to play
With her two swords when it sends
Her flying to break her arm
Her mouth wide open to scream
Her eyes squeezed shut from the pain
But silence filled the room, utter silence

[RiverNotch]

Last night I dreamed of birdsong
issuing from an azure
field streaked with gold,
a barn swallow sparring
with a collared kingfisher
low above our roof,
bee-eaters in the distance
hopping from stalk to stalk,
tree sparrows threatening
to land upon my finger,
and a family of crows
soaring far overhead,
cawing at us for gifts
of toast and boiled eggs.

[Magpie]

Oh to be stuck in a rut
in autumnal midnight forests
bellowing a guttural grunt
of territorial dominance.

By a moonlit loch
I look for constellations
as growls of testosterone 
reverberate down the glen.

[dukealien]

Unprintable


It is a sound which, heard, can’t be described:
the almost-flatulence a horse’s lips
make, blowing out when startled or alarmed.
Efficient, for the breath it just took in
upon which danger tingled, is expelled
to warn all other members of its herd
instinctively, perhaps, but for a beast
so powerful but vulnerable, blessed.