Welcome to the May 2017 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal.
This month's theme is Colorful Haiku.
Poems have been received from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, the U. K., Ukraine, and the United States
blue —
the sea saturated
with so much sky
- Adjei Agyei-Baah
pathway a red sea of tulips
- Adrian Bouter
a black book
on the wooden table
with dried flowers
- Adrian Bouter
how green the peas
of spring
and of renewal
- ai li
you call off your engagement
texting him
wearing yellow
- ai li
in this house of emptiness
every piece of furniture
brown
- ai li
photographing
a man photographing
a bright red sign
- Alan Bern
blasting through red lights
in a shiny black SUV
late for the wake
- Alan Bern
on the front windshield
eleven purple blossoms
on the back window three
- Alan Bern
fence painting
a wish to be the green
of dragons
- Alan Summers
spring skies
and a slide guitar
the purple tulips
- Alan Summers
red roofs
four cats in love
full moon
- Angela Giordano
young artist
tattooed body
purple hair
- Angela Giordano
out in the garden
orange pumpkins
crows on wires
- Angela Giordano
parrots and urchins screech over green mangoes
- Angelee Deodhar
red light
gray birds drape
the power lines
- Anna Cates
one green tomato
still clings to the vine
October drizzle
- Anna Cates
the black sky
a flight of bats —
figs fall
- Antonio Mangiameli
grey sky
his answer
neither yes nor no
- Aparna Pathak
train whistle
a blue jay
announces the cat
- Barbara Kaufmann
cup of oolong
a goldfinch appears
in the haze
- Barbara Kaufmann
blood-red moon
in the garden
a perfect pumpkin
- Barbara Tate
rain
a white cat claws at
the screen
- Barbara Tate
eulogy
a gray dove calls . . .
gets no answer
- Barbara Tate
my mug sky blue
and hers lime green
. . . this steaming berry tea
- Bill Waters
she pauses to twirl:
the little girl
in the raspberry dress
- Bill Waters
like five sisters:
a row of orange maples
tall and strong
- Bill Waters
in place of shrubs
I plant purple bell peppers
and red roses
- Brenda Roberts
sorting stones
all the purple ones
are mine!
- Brenda Roberts
rosemary
for remembrance
mom's plastic pink flamingo
- Brenda Roberts
prussian blue
falling across the canvas
like blueberries
- C. Robin Janning
heavy rainfall
my retriever
golden again
- Carol Dilworth
winter compost
a range of browns
harbinger of plenty
- Carol Dilworth
spring at last
a blue door opens
to sunlight
- Caroline Skanne
spring break
a spot of red
in the bug hotel
- Caroline Skanne
blue dusk
tracing the silhouette
of a song
- Caroline Skanne
bone-deep
where the yellow pill
won't reach
- Caroline Skanne
scarlet night
a bite of apple
in the nude
- Celestine Nudanu
lemon sky
a tinge of bitterness
in mother's soup
- Celestine Nudanu
neither here, nor there
a brown paper bag whipped
by the wind
- Chen-ou Liu
unpacking brown cardboard boxes
too many . . .
gradually fewer
- Cheryl Gallien
blushing bride
my red lipstick print
on her cheek
- Christina Sng
vibrant scarves
swirl around her body
tangerine tango
- Claire Vogel Camargo
uphill
an excuse to stop
red berries, yellow berries
- Danny Blackwell
spring sun
the reddening of
his bald spot
- Dave Read
sunset
a yellow rose
droops in the vase
- Dave Read
vermillion too many poppies to count
- David J. Kelly
forest fire the whole sky burnt sienna
- David J. Kelly
clear blue sky
a student busy
counting clouds
- Debbi Antebi
newly painted
on the park bench
a leaf turns blue
- Debbi Antebi
pink tulips
taking the long way
home
- Debbi Antebi
summer sunset
the orange glow stays
on my face
- Debbi Antebi
balanced on the elephant's trunk a tangerine moon
- Debbie Strange
lazy morning . . .
a ginger cat curls
into a sunbeam
- Debbie Strange
sepia postcards
from around the world
autumn leaves
- Debbie Strange
a row of red bindings
at the used book store
rocking chair
- Deborah P Kolodji
childhood's end
a quilt block made from
her lavender dress
- Deborah P Kolodji
her indentation
in the black leather couch
calico kitten
- Deborah P Kolodji
mindful of the
lightness of meditation
periwinkle blue
- Devin Harrison
illuminating trails
below the redwood canopy
pink sorrel
- Devin Harrison
spring reveals
her new fashion line
a million greens
- Dottie Piet
summer rumble
fists of gray clouds
lead the attack
- Dottie Piet
cherry trees
beautiful evening
in pink japan
- Ece Cehreli
after
the rainbow —
a pink moon
- Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
black clouds
the sky whispers
its bad mood
- Eufemia Griffo
little maple tree
two inches high
even your three leaves are turning red
- Frank Robinson
in the heel of the black sock a neat circle of pink skin
- Glenn Ingersoll
graveyard —
wearing my black raincoat
once again
- Goran Gatalica
spring pops up
against the blue sky
plums in pink
- Hideo Suzuki
all at once
yellow flowers bloom . . .
summer break
- Hideo Suzuki
pearls of dew
on this purple flower . . .
september ends
- Hideo Suzuki
blue heron
the long line
at the drive-thru
- Jennifer Hambrick
black widow spider
blood droplets
tattooed on her neck
- Jennifer Hambrick
twining vines
shade mama's porch . . .
green beans
- Jill Lange
white sky
white pines —
the falling snow
- Jill Lange
a smoky-peach sunset
mother must be
painting
- Jo Balistreri
in a barrel
of fallen leaves
one pink cosmos
- Jo Balistreri
white clouds
strung across blue sky
ropes on which i hang my hopes
- Joan Leotta
wind and crickets
whistling through
my blue truck
- Joan McNerney
small red boots splatter big puddles
- Joan McNerney
pink blossom scattered
on her grave
north wind
- Joanna M. Weston
the sway of trees
in the wind
a yellow balloon
- Joanna M. Weston
cloud of pale yellow
arbutus blossom —
dragonflies
- Joanna M. Weston
honey bees
dipping into pollen
her crimson lipstick
- John Hawkhead
winter sunlight
my father's photograph
fades to black and white
- John Hawkhead
ebony jewelwing
were you once
plain?
- Julie Warther
gray moon
forgetting
our wedding date
- Justice Joseph Prah
white-lit runway
revealing snail's silver trail
thunderflashes
- Justice Joseph Prah
time into time
the blackness of the well
counting far away stars
- Justice Joseph Prah
little gray rabbits
the slippers she wore
on her last walk
- Kath Abela Wilson
lost piece of sky
my mother always
wore blue
- Kath Abela Wilson
we painted
our home with it
three shades of sunshine
- Kath Abela Wilson
full spring moon rising
red lantern in the black sky
no one is talking
- Katya Sabaroff Taylor
two writers are one
when they can't stop looking at
the white gardenia
- Katya Sabaroff Taylor
red geranium
green watering can
so sure of themselves
- Katya Sabaroff Taylor
a different white
envelope
on the snow
- kjmunro
yellow plastic pail
left at the beach
another memory
- kjmunro
harmattan
a tree shedding
its greenness
- Kwaku Feni Adow
excessive pink rouge
dotting pale flesh
nursing home visit
- Lance Robertson
yellow duckling
close to the ground
morning dew
- Laughing waters
lilac pansies
behind the door
sudden kisses
- Lucia Fontana
red oleander
the silence pierced
by croaking
- Lucia Fontana
new housing estate
the monotony
of red tiled roofs
- Madhuri Pillai
feverish —
orange slices
and an old book
- Maria Laura Valente
jazz records —
this night my lines
are so blue
- Maria Laura Valente
a white forepaw
gingerly
on fallen leaves
- Mark E. Brager
blue monday . . .
in a pot on the window
green sprouts
- Marta Chocilowska
white sky —
the empty space
for thoughts
- Martha Magenta
bluebird song —
hiding in the grass
an iris
- Martha Magenta
open daffodils —
a little girl twirls
her yellow dress
- Martha Magenta
hint of yellow
teasing tips
forsythia
- Marty Blue Waters
children now gone
no red wagon
to break the fog
- Mary Kendall
flashes of azure wings
two bluebirds wake
the grey morning
- Mary Kendall
Mardi Gras gold mask
cat and dogs don't
know me
- Michael G. Smith
damned river flotsam
one red soccer ball stands out
among the rubbish
- Mimi Foyle
among fallen vines
a pencil-thin yellow snake
arrests my footsteps
- Mimi Foyle
wife's first gray hair I point it out a few times
- Nicholas Klacsanzky
attic —
the ladybug loses
its red
- Nicholas Klacsanzky
into a black hole
a sleepy brown bear drags
its shadow
- Nina Kovacic (translation by Durda Vukelic Rozic)
heat wave
black dots fill
the flypaper
- Olivier Schopfer
just as the traffic light
turns from red to green
my cell phone rings
- Olivier Schopfer
first frost
I follow the white clouds
of my breath
- Olivier Schopfer
nightfall
the purple shamrock's petals
slowly closing
- Olivier Schopfer
64 colors
the time it takes to pick
the first crayon
- Pat Davis
today's lesson
the color of pasta
when it's done
- Pat Davis
in passing . . .
waxwings exchange
red berries
- Pat Geyer
overgrown path
filled with eastern red buds . . .
forest pansies
- Pat Geyer
moving stealthily
through neighborhood backyards —
a dog or red fox
- Pat Geyer
she bid me "come, see!" —
sun setting magenta gold
— eyes wider with dusk
- Peter Ladley
lichens in design
gray splotches on forest stone
stars aging in place
- Peter Ladley
my toni doll —
that same red dress
for sixty years
- Pris Campbell
heavy rain . . .
green overtaking brown
in my father's garden
- Pris Campbell
sleepless . . .
our cat stares back
at the black night
- Pris Campbell
crossroad —
I slip the gold
from my finger
- Pris Campbell
another year
again she wipes
her red eyes
- Rachel Sutcliffe
first autumn alone
the yellowing pages
of her diary
- Rachel Sutcliffe
white flakes
on red mittens
her first snow
- Rachel Sutcliffe
midday sun
packing oranges
for the picnic
- Rachel Sutcliffe
at day's end
the highest balloon —
yellow, blue, or red?
- Ron Scully
you cannot unscent
red filling the sunroom
so amaryllis
- Ron Scully
painter's palette
teal, cerulean, azure
no match to this sea
- Ron Scully
spring day
even my cat's eyes
are greener
- Rosa Clement
peace parade
white balloons invisible
in the clouds
- Rosa Clement
twilight
an egret stands alone
turning pink
- Sandi Pray
in the woods
the sound of
red berries
- Sandi Pray
crunch-crunch-crunch
a red-winged blackbird stops
and I do too
- Scott Wiggerman
drooping fruit
of prickly pears
maroon sunset
- Scott Wiggerman
yellow stripes
run the caterpillar's length
the road ahead
- Scott Wiggerman
first kiss . . .
my white dish
breaks
- Shedrach Ugwu
mother's emerald ring reflections in green light
- Simon Hanson
midnight silver
the desert pool
filled with stars
- Simon Hanson
garden path
highlights of the moon
on black satin
- Simon Hanson
under the bed
slouching indifferently
one lone purple sock
- Stacey Crawford Murphy
crystal clear raindrop
borrows yellow
from a daffodil
- Sue Norvell
purple bruise
remembering
the "youch!"
- Sue Norvell
turmeric moon
on every page of ma's cookbook
a smear of gold
- Sanjuktaa Asopa
crunch of red leaves . . .
the bickering continues
into the walk
- Sanjuktaa Asopa
chalked upon the sidewalk
the name "macbeth" —
a black ant marches across
- Stephen Page
high above the weeds
closer to the sun, white
yucca plant flowers
- Stephen Page
a psychic's shop
black door ajar —
tell me something I don't know
- Tara Kane
violet, lavender
and lilac dance together
on her skirt
- Theresa A. Cancro
monarchs
perched in firs
dreaming yellow
- Theresa A. Cancro
sliding into spring
a paprika sunset
stains the horizon
- Theresa A. Cancro
on the ground
her golden hair
shorn
- Tia Haynes
the rumpled
white linen
of my wedding night
-Tia Haynes
pink
the triangle
she wore
- Tia Haynes
crimson sunset
what you've said
what I've said
- Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
spicing things up
one side of the room
painted orange
- Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
one yellow sock
one blue
whatever — no one looks
- Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
yellow bingo lights
we count meteors
over the pier
- Tim Gardiner
a warming oven
black bananas
in the yellow bowl
- Tricia Knoll
three gold pins pulled
from the cotton doll
spring cherry blossoms
- Tricia Knoll
black ink on her thumb
the freelancer's
blotted safety net
- Tricia Knoll
gray skies
at the zoo —
blue frogs
- Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
buds on branches —
two blue jays
trading places
- Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
filling the heart day after day white butterflies
- Vibeke Laier
golden leaves rustling hedgehog dreams
- Vibeke Laier
cherry tree
a pink petal lands
on my nose
- Violet Akalu-Skanne
spring boot fair i buy a green polka dot dress
- Violet Akalu-Skanne
playing field
i pick a buttercup
for my teacher
- Violet Akalu-Skanne
my brother's smile reflected in a red balloon
- Violet Akalu-Skanne
i loved to trace them —
thick blue veins
on grandma's hands
- Zee Zahava
cardinals
visiting the tulips
red on red on red on red
- Zee Zahava
new blue sneakers
with lime-green laces . . .
more zip in my springtime walk
- Zee Zahava
first date —
over wildflower bouquet
her blue eyes
- Zuzanna Truchlewska
