Night noises (IP)

With a sniffle and a snuffle,
and a sudden snort,
the silences of darkness are rare and short,
there’s a giggle and a gurgle,
and a low long growl,
a hiss, a hum, a murmur,
and a screeching hoot or howl
from a passing flitting owl.
There’s a smattering of raindrops,
and a pattering of paws,
a clattering of breeze-blown nuts (one plops),
the scratch of tiny claws;
a whooshing wind that batters,
pulls abscised leaves and scatters,
the rubbish shakes and clatters.
There’s a scuttle and a scrunch,
a rustle, slither, crunch
amongst the dry leaf litter,
a distant thundery mutter,
followed by a rolling rumble,
an agitated rodent’s bumble,
a bark, a slurp, a chew … :

the sounds create a ‘view’
of what’s unseen,
– do you ‘perceive’ each scene
now written, read and heard
by onomatopoeic word?!

[IP:using onomatopeic words]