Wordplay

Jurassic Echoes: Primordial Soundscapes

An onomatopoeic odyssey through the age of dinosaurs

Heavy footsteps echo through the jungle. Author created in Midjourney.

The jungle’s buzzing, humming, thrumming, and drumming,

The chirping, squawking, cawing, and calling,

The rustling, crackling, snapping, and creaking,

The hooting, screeching, howling, and shrieking…

Then

Thud, thud, in the mud, the heavy footsteps echo through the jungle. The ground shakes. Crunch, munch, snap, chewing cud as the Brachiosaurus feeds on the treetops.

Whoosh, floosh, whoosh its leathery wings flapping as it rides the thermals. The Pterodactyl flying more, more, soaring, wind at its core.

Clicking, click-clack, click-clack, claws, against the rocky ground. Velociraptors stalking their prey. Grr, snarl, hiss, as they coordinate their attack.

A mighty ROAR! The Tyrannosaurus Rex, king of the dinosaurs has arrived. Gnash, gnash, as it tore into the flesh of its victim, CHOMP!, its massive jaws snap, mash, thrash as it eats its snack.

Thump, thump, bump the dinosaurs scatter. Undone, they run. Feet pounding against the earth as they flee the apex predator.