Eight-line Poems

Sounds

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.