Weekly Challenge #4: What was that sound?

[Fluffy]

What was that sound?​

For this week's challenge, the theme is sound and the style is pretty much free-form, but with a refrain. A refrain is a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, usually after the chorus or stanza. Along with this definition, I will provide a poetry example, just in case. Make it rhyme, or don't. It's not a requirement for this one.

As for the topic, I ask for you to choose a sound of any kind that you can make a poem about. Bird tweets, alarm clocks, baby cries, an instrument, someone's voice, the sound of pots and pans being drummed on... Just to name a few random ideas. Can be a noise at irritates you, induces sadness, or makes you happy. The mood is of your choosing as well, y'all.

Example of a poem using a refrain

The cat so silent
Lay curled up on the rug
The fire a blaze
The room so snug.

Purring, purring
Quiet and still
Purring, purring
Content from his fill.

Tatters the cat
Big, fat cat.

He had just eaten
A dinner of fish
What a treat to have
Filling up his dish.

Purring, purring
Quiet and still
Purring, purring
Content from his fill.

Tatters the cat
Big, fat cat.

No more cold for the day
He was in for the night
Fun he had had
When the day was light.

Purring, purring
Quiet and still
Purring, purring
Content from his fill.

Tatters the cat
Big, fat cat.

 

[Fluffy]

Inspired by my tinnitus. LOL I was sitting here thinking about how pissed off I am that this condition of mine is nudging me closer to deafness. Words came to me.

Ring, Ring, Ring...

You damnable thumping,
so deep within my ears
Then my heart gets pumping
This hurts me like a pierce

Ring, ring, ring
A most unpleasant song
that's gone horribly wrong

'Tis a most dreadful curse
No escape, and no peace
Father Time makes it worse;
makes the symptoms increase

Ring, ring, ring
A most unpleasant song
that's gone horribly wrong

The jaws of silence clamp
down upon my ear drums
Feels as bad as a cramp
that I wish I could numb

Ring, ring, ring
A most unpleasant song
that's gone horribly wrong

The humming of a fan,
it soothes me into sleep
So I'll avoid the plan
Tinnitus wants to keep

Ring, ring, ring
A most unpleasant song
that's gone horribly wrong

 

[SlamifiedBuddafied]

I awoke with a start to find the the most ominous of sounds,
it seethed and scratched and called out in whispers.
From the walls and the floor it did slide
to the windows it did shake, beneath my bed it did would perch.

Mock mock mock.
Oh does it mock me?
My sudden gasps of fear,
Mock mock mock.
I would hear my voice behind the wall.

Scrambling from my dreams I jumped from my bed,
the cold wood floor a reminder of a fear
waiting to reveal itself as it slid along.
I dared not make a peep, eyes wide and hair on end.

Mock mock mock.
Why does it mock me?
My sudden gasps of fear?
Mock mock mock.
I know I hear my voice beneath the floor.

I ran through my home,
through the darkness night lay upon me,
my skin crawled as it did too.
It follows with a wretched sound,
the sound too familiar.

Mock mock mock.
Do not mock me!
My sudden gasps of fear!
Mock mock mock.
I know I mock myself from behind my eyes.​

 

[noodle]

Lightning Girl

Deep thrums and booms erupt,
From a tossing, churning sky,
The growls of many hungry beasts,
All screaming for a chance to feed.
​

The Thunder above crashes its protests,
Its waves of anger against the Earth.​

The clouds above roar,
And shake the ground below.
Animals run for cover,
But she stands still on the hill.
​

The Thunder above crashes its protests,
Its waves of anger against the Earth.​

She screams above it, with it,
Releasing emotions that were bottled,
Kept hidden for so long,
Now escaped with the quivering skies.
​

The Thunder above crashes its protests,
Its waves of anger against the Earth.​

And she breathes,
Crashes with it,
The girl of Thunder,
The girl of Rain.​

The Thunder above crashes its protests,
And the Lightning Girl helps it.​

 

[PoetLore]

Some things are never seen
Kept hidden from the world
Behind smiling lips and shining eyes
Closed safely away in the darkness

Where tears fall in solitude
And pain shatters the soul

No one suspects or even sees
That there are two very different sides to me
One that the world sees and loves
And one where the weight of it comes bearing down

Where tears fall in solitude
And pain shatters the soul

I managed fine for many years
But then everything fell apart
The home I'd built crumbled to nothing
My strength and will now spent and gone

Where tears fall in solitude
And pain shatters the soul

But now I wake and show the world
The frail and oft tremulous side
I realize now that I must not be perfect and loved
But honest and true to myself is enough