Onomatopoetic

Onomatopoetic

In my present state,
I love to say the word
“ferocious,”
feeling the way each phoneme combines to create
a word whose meaning matches my mood like
an emotional onomatopoeia. Starting on the lips,
the deep “o” comes from behind and grabs the “f” and “r”
down into the gutter
where they all churn with the “cious.”

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