Eight-line Poems

Utterance

Utterance

The sentence, climbing up
upon the wings of hyperbole,
turns upon the passion
of the speaker’s tongue,
and the sweetness of its footfall
in the ear of the listener,
till, with breath exhausted,
it pauses for a period.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 07.30.22
Prompt: Sentence.