Exercise 10 - The Sound of Words

In this exercise Sara asks us to consider the sound of words and how they can effect the atmosphere of your writing. This is my very short entry this week.

Pong of a Cow Pat

Don’t you just love the title of this piece?

Pong is such a descriptive word,
you can almost taste the smell! Pah! Pooh!
Just think how different a pong is to a whiff.
A whiff wafts; it is hardly pungent like a pong is.
A pong impregnates your lungs
so that you really sense that you have smelt it!

A reek is quite bad but it tends to sneak up on you;
whilst a stench and a stink are totally putrid.
The pong of a cow pat however,
places you squarely in the countryside where;
when shit happens it is - merely manure.