Welcome to the December issue of brass bell: a haiku journal. This month's theme is night.
Contributors come from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Ghana, India, Ireland, Japan, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, and the United States
moonlight absorbing fireflies
- Adjei Agyei-Baah
bunk beds —
the moon shifts silently
to the upper lake
- Ajaya Mahala
night walking
the shrieking baby
a fly in his ear
- Alan Bern
in the outdoor sculpture garden carved hands posed to cradle night
- Alan Catlin
sleeping rough
I make more room
for the Milky Way
- Alan Summers
each page of
Tender is the Night
a sleepless night
- Ali Znaidi
unable to sleep
I amble through the garden —
night blooming cestrum
I amble through the garden —
night blooming cestrum
- Amauri Solon
night time —
even the clock
stops ticking
- Ana Drobot
long night
reading another book
about insomnia
- Anna Goluba
remote home —
more and more gloomy
the new moon
- Anna Mazurkiewicz
sailing with my paper boats a moonbow
- Archana Kapoor Nagpal
rolling blackout
suddenly
these stars!
- ayaz daryl nielsen
new year's eve
turning the corner
I see where I've been
- Barbara Tate
sleepless night . . .
the silence
between my breaths
- Bill Waters
night
lifts her long black skirt
steps into dawn
- C. Robin Janning
so much
to say
full moon
- Caroline Skanne
moon shadow puppets
her round womb like a balloon
under the sheets
- Catherine Rigutto
midnight bus shelter
the lullaby
of spring rain
- Chen-ou Liu
night fog
I lose my bearings
standing still
- Dave Read
nightwatchman
alone with his dog
and his thoughts
- David J. Kelly
moonlit lake
I brush the silver
from your hair
- Debbie Strange
night blooming jasmine
uncomfortable memories
of us
- Deborah P Kolodji
afterwards
the silence that divides us
sleepless night
- Devin Harrison
night train
letting a tse-tse fly go
through the window
- Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
2 a.m.
I grip the murder mystery
a little tighter
- Ferris Gilli
moonless night only the echo shows the way
- Gergana Yaninska
wind chimes in the night
a Bedouin caravan
entering my dream
- Jack Goldman
wheeze of night ice
on the windshield
broken defroster
- Jan Benson
still hissing into the night raging bushfire
- Jayashree Maniyil
the pastels
of a desert evening . . .
a warbler's song
- Jo Balistreri
that last night
he looked back
I waved
- Joan Corr
what discus player
threw a tangerine moon on
top of Main Street?
- Joan McNerney
snow
plows through a village
tonight
- Joann Grisetti
sorting buttons
for Grandma
starry night . . .
- Joanna M. Weston
first night alone
rocking back and forth
the clock ticks
- Karen O'Leary
night breeze
the faint scent
of an unseen lilac
- Kat Lehmann
five languages
at 90 she talks in her sleep
to each child
- Kath Abela Wilson
one night, many stars
one woman, many stories
see how matched we are
- Katya Sabaroff Taylor
night of an eclipse . . .
the scribbling in my diary
means nothing
- kris moon
old barn
through the hole in the roof
the Big Dipper
- Krzysztof Kokot
crescent moon
rocking a boat
in mid-sea
- Kumarendra Mallick
rural highway
our eyes
watching for eyes
- Lance Robertson
blue night another last time to cry
- Lovette Carter
coffee stains
from that night
you didn't die
- Margaret Jones
so lonely —
even the moon
is not with me
- Maria Tirenescu
white pines
the night humming
of giraffes
- Marianne Paul
quarter moon the milk boils over
- Mark E. Brager
hazy moon
a snowflake thaws
between our lips
- Marta Chocilowska
deep into the night
little owl and I
contemplate the universe
- Marty Blue Waters
between two
decrepit buildings —
poplar in late evening light
decrepit buildings —
poplar in late evening light
- Nicholas Klacsanzky
black sky —
caught in the electric wires
a captive star
- Nicole Pottier
under a full moon
a couple strides over dry leaves
in search of the dark
- Nina Kovačić
owl song
a moonbeam glides
through the pine trees
- Olivier Schopfer
missing you . . .
this moon abandons
the night
- Pat Geyer
restless night
I count
haiku syllables
- philip d noble
dripping city after dusk —
the interplay
of mist and light
- Phoebe Lakin
on the brick wall
moonlight hangs
lace curtains
- Phyllis Lee
potholes —
a frog jumps into
the scary night
- Pravat Kumar Padhy
unfolding darkness
the chill of the pillow
next to mine
- Rachel Sutcliffe
the moon
setting early
sleepy seeds
- Robin White
moonlight
her pearl necklace twinkles
from afar
- Rosa Clement
no end
to this empty road
but the moon waits there
- Sandi Pray
counting sheep backwards on loop
- Shloka Shankar
snail
see what the moon makes
of wanderers
- Simon Hanson
midsummer night —
you pick pine needles
out of my hair
- Sondra J. Byrnes
some nights it is just
easier to sleep with my
mute hypocrisy
- Stacey Crawford-Murphy
walking at sunset
a lightning bug lands
upon my T-shirt
- Stephen Page
evening star
snowflakes cling
to the screen door
- Theresa A. Cancro
a plank swing sways
in night wind on rusty hooks
crickets
- Tricia Knoll
raindrops through golden leaves a moon lake
- Vibeke Laier
stars closer to the graves silent cicadas
- Virginia Popescu
starlit night . . .
crocheting
our monosyllables
- Yesha Shah
moon
why do you follow me tonight?
I am lost
- Zee Zahava
