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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
March 29, 2022 at 2:20pm
March 29, 2022 at 2:20pm
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Sounds

“Shh,” goes the sign to keep silent,
yet, of all sounds, that sibilant hiss
carries furthest in the silent darkness.
Stealth negated by its initial.

“Yuck!” she cries in disgust,
but I remember a time of comics
when the sound of “Yuck yuck”
meant the chortle of mirth.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 03.29.22
Prompt: Shh, yuck.


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