Onomatopoeia

What’s your favorite word?

A word that actually sounds like something in life sounds…

A sizzling, fizzing, firework

Birds tweet

Dogs woof or howl

Owls hoot!

Sheep baaaa baaaa

Cows moo at you

Oompah bands play

Trombones trumpet!

Water splashing and plishing

Swishing and gurgling

Tocking ticking clocks

Wham! Bam! Crashing

A purr from a kitten or cat

A dropped boot in mud. splat!

Slurp my cocoa

Go to sleep for a few zzzeds!

Owl and pussycat

Looking at random things in the house. On my bookcase upstairs these two friends. I think I put them together because they remind me of Edward Lears poem.

The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat.

They took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five pound note…..

Which is the female and which is the male? I don’t know, is it important? I don’t  remember the full poem and I often get it mixed up with Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky poem.

It’s amazing what pops up in your memory when you see things. I have a good visual memory and that helps when I’m painting. I often talk to myself if I’m trying to remember what something looks like or how it’s put together. X

Spelling…

My friend Esther Chiltons weekly limerick prompt this week was to use the word SPELL somewhere in the five line rhyme. I was rather pleased with what I came up with so here it is…

The witch of the wood cast a spell
But no one could easily tell
For she’d been mistaken
Used the wrong incantation
And turned her broom into a well!