Welcome to the July 2022 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal.
The theme of this month’s collection is “sound / no sound”
Contributing poets are from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Wales
old barber
his scissors snip
around my ears
Adjei Agyei-Baah
the hidden language of dentures
ai li
desert wind . . .
the rusty windmill
squeals all night
Al Gallia
a new crack in the twice-recast Liberty Bell
Alan Bern
amplified in the bird box bees
Alan Peat
footsteps ring along a sidewalk the fog lifting
Alan Summers
a monk
sounding the butterfly
out of the bell
Alexis Rotella
written exam —
the silence interrupted by
a question
Ana Drobot
silence reigns
in this empty house —
I miss you mom
Angela Giordano
yellow zinnias —
the cell phone rings
inside the bag
Angiola Inglese
argument settled
a single clink of her teaspoon
against the cup
Barbara Sabol
solitude
dust gathers in his
empty room
Barbara Tate Sayre
aisle seat
the click of the ticket punch
getting closer
Barrie Levine
storm front!
up and down the street
mothers calling
Bill Waters
loving to hear
what dad didn’t say —
long drives in his truck
Blue Waters
whistling along Wyoming
Brad Bennett
two-minute silence
at the cenotaph
a veteran weeps
Bryan D. Cook
horror flick
the sloppy kiss
of the couple behind me
Bryan Rickert
waking before birds
no song accompanies my
stumbling steps
C. Robin Janning
magic forest
the tintinnabulation
of fairy bells
Carol Judkins
thump thump thump
street basketball
long into the night
Carole Johnston
sleeping in —
the silence
of the cat’s stare
Carole MacRury
a foreign language:
I listen to the poem
just for its music
Charles Trumbull
the clatter
of this rusty gate
foreclosure
Chen-ou Liu
quietude . . .
phlox blossoms round
the stone Buddha
Christina Chin
whisper of wool
nothing
but the crochet hook
Christina Martin
crackling
my son’s voice
changing
Christina Sng
tv yoga
static interrupts
shavasana
Christine Wenk-Harrison
under covers
beneath an open window
angry voices
Claire Vogel Camargo
five a.m. white-crowned sparrow’s etude
C.R. Harper
that dog
he doesn’t know
why he’s barking
David Watts
watersongs the differing frequencies of stones
Debbie Strange
spirit totem
a swallowtail pulsates
around her cairn
Deborah Burke Henderson
because snow quiet
because ancient sun and moon
the way hearts sing
Donna Fleischer
flying
with no sound
origami plane
Elena Malec
first thunder
my boy bursts
his balloon
Florin C. Ciobica
waiting room —
the fidgety clicks
of someone’s pen
Geethanjali Rajan
lead singer
1980s basement band —
hearing loss
Geoff Pope
spring solitude
a chickadee’s thrum
from the knothole
Hifsa Ashraf
my mother singing
along with the radio
tuned in to her dreams
Jack Goldman
morning chill . . .
the squeak of his chalk
on the blackboard
Jackie Chou
street performer
draws a crowd
the clink of coins
Janice Doppler
spilled ice cream
the duck’s quacks
sound like laughter
Jay Friedenberg
the whole room yells
“unmute yourself” as if
they care what he’s saying
Jenna Le
beyond pine shadows
and crickets . . . the clop
clop of an Amish buggy
Jill Lange
in between . . .
the krawk krawk krawk
of a pinyon jay
Jo Balistreri
dancing to my own heartbeat
Joan Leotta
songbirds
suddenly
I’m not alone
Joanna Ashwell
burying our friend
we walk back singing that song
half-moon on gravesite
Joel Savishinsky
the pause
after I ask
if she still loves me
John J. Dunphy
catching my breath
the parp and wheeze
of an old bike horn
John Pappas
frozen snow —
I hear
the loneliness
Jorge Alberto Giallorenzi
the tern’s call the enormity of the sea
Joshua St. Claire
ploughed fields
oxen mooing
under the ombu tree
Julia Guzman
mature garden the squeak of an old wheelbarrow
Karen Harvey
at the Shinto shrine
bow twice, clap twice, bow again
make a little wish
Karla Linn Merrifield
finally getting the right tone singing bowl
Kath Abela Wilson
80 years
of yankees’ games
turning the sound up now
Kathleen Kramer
one hot June morning
blueberry meditation
orbs ping on brass bowl
Katya Sabaroff Taylor
harvest moon . . .
through the violet veiled night
my muse whispers
kris moon
day lilies open wide . . .
loud laughter
from our neighbor’s party
Kristen Lindquist
parched earth
a loud crack of thunder
from an earthen pot
Lakshmi Iyer
so hard
not to slam
the door
Laurinda Lind
morse coding climate change the fireflies
Lorraine A. Padden
insomnia . . .
woodworm working
in the dark
Lucia Cardillo
stale mint gum
the clank of a zipper
in the dryer
Marcie Wessels
like a small distant
elephant trumpeting: fart
under the blankets
Margaret Fisher Squires
sunday dinner
the children’s table
on the porch
Margaret Walker
djembe
the throbbing heat
of summer
Marilyn Ashbaugh
outback night
dingoes’ songs echo
across the gorge
Marilyn Humbert
just married
joyful shivarees
all night long
Marta Chocilowska
lyrics long forgotten
the melody always
in my mind
Mary Kendall
sweet summer peach
slurping the best bit from the pit
Masha M.
summer heat
buzzing flies take refuge
in the basement
Maya Daneva
in that sliver of blackness
between barn and moon
coyote calls his name
Michael Flanagan
uncanny
his lawn mower knows
I meditate
Michael G. Smith
talking
to his plate
alone
Mike Gallagher
summer storm
all these silent talks
between you and me
Milan Rajkumar
night walking alone
i miss the sweet harmonies
i no longer hear
Mimi Foyle
family meal
from the other chair
the cat’s meow
Mirela Brailean
bells chime the hour
uneven stepping stones
across the stream
Miriam Sagan
wakeful child
humming an old lullaby
granny dozes
Neena Singh
laughter
in every language
ESL class
Pat Davis
recovery
the dog who lost its bark
finds it again
Paul Beech
slight of hand —
in response to being duped
hearty applause
Paul Callus
hearing loss
silence flows
from his moving lips
Pris Campbell
seaside concert
the roars of seals
during pianissimo
Richard L. Matta
dad’s death day —
a mourning dove coos
just enough comfort
Robert Epstein
gentle rain . . .
sliding into the weekend
on wet leaves
Roberta Beach Jacobson
mockingbird
knows what you want to hear
cedar waxwing
Ron Scully
zen garden
the flapping wings
of a butterfly
Rosa Clement
dune path —
just before the surf’s boom
we smell it
Ruth Yarrow
Quaker meeting
a lone fly’s hum the only break
in the heat
Sue Norvell
hiccups all the things I can’t control
Susan Burch
the swish of the brush
dad’s shoe propped up
on his shoeshine box
Teresa Bakota Yatsko
handlebar mustache
the way he rolls
his r’s
Theresa A. Cancro
not even twilight can contain this silence
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
no one hears
the ocean
in my ears
Tom Clausen
noisy tourists
a praying monk
rolls his eyes
Vandana Parashar
midsummer rain
echo of thunder
in the conch shell
Vibeke Laier
noisy tractor
goes silent for a moment
the lark song
Wieslaw Karlinski
sore throat
after six hours
protest march
Wilda Morris
afternoon nap
my sweetheart and i practice
synchronized snoring
Zee Zahava
Friday, July 1, 2022
sound / no sound
