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Written for dVerse Poets Pub – “ Shhhhhh…..
Quiet, Please!” hosted  by Lillian who has
asked us to create a quadrille using the
word “silence”.  This is my response.

They fled the noise –
the neighbors, the traffic,
the television’s endless chatter –
tumbling through doorways,
breathless and laughing,
shushing each other
while making
twice the sound.

Finally, the garden.
3am.
Stars overhead.

“Here”, they whispered.
And silence, at last,
held them both.

NAR©2026
44 Words

This is “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tommy James & The Shondells

Shhhhhhh…….Quiet, Please!

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