S ounds L ike P oetry I love the sound of poetry. As a poet I consciously play with sounds. As well as reading poetry with our eyes, we must read it with our ears. In other words, listen to the sound the words create. Sounds of words and sounds within words attract my attention when I am writing a poem. I repeat sounds in the hope of  attracting the ear of my readers. I want the sounds I have selected to be noticed and noted. The reader's mind is the destination for my sound bytes. I may repeat a consonant at the beginning of certain words to create ALLITERATION. In this extract from 'Simply A Walk In the Park, I wrote  the line containing several words beginning with the consonant 'b.':  A large wooly dog barks boldly at the butterflies In  the poem Jeffrey the Jellyfish' I have used lots of alliterative combinations. Jeffrey was a jellyfish A rather jolly jellyfish He floated freely in the sea Bobbing and bouncing happily Here is another exam...