Random Acts of Poetry

Invitation to Battle

A rush of orange leaves
flutter like a banner by the window,
murmuring and whispering taunts.

Cat’s paw plonks on the pane
of her wild heart’s glass prison.
It thrums with primal desires.

A yowl starts low in her chest,
creeps up and sets teeth to chirring.
A crow caws a mocking reply.

He claims the high wire, his throne
muscling the bluejays out of place.
Complaining, they swoop and scroop.

But the cat, hearing the faint scritch
of tiny feet behind the wall,
abandons this battle, flumps from her perch.



15 lines
Free Verse
Written for "The Daily Poem " 

Prompt - image of a cat
Using the noises irritating this cat, write an onomatopoeia-heavy poem.

The words in image are: Plonk, Scritch, Thrum, Chirr, Scroop, Squelch, Flump

You must use at least four (4) of the words referenced in the image.

You can use other onomatopoeia sounds in addition to the four (or more) you selected from the image.

Your poem does not have to have anything to do with the cat.

No other restrictions.