Silent Voices
Crashing clashing mashing
Thunder
Rolling over heavenly
obstacles
Bursting ears
Sound unleashed uncontrolled
Kettle drums beating
Noisily noisily noisily
In stillness and silence
Deaf lovers trade
sentiments
Express their love for
each other
Open their hearts
Wordlessly
soundlessly
Unheard by outsiders
Stillness
The voice of nothingness
Howard Moon
Howard
Moon is a writer and poet. His writing and poetry have appeared in multiple
collections and anthologies, Small Change, Montana Mouthful, Das Literarisch Journal, Of Poets and
Poetry, Native Skin, Breath and Shadow, and more. He has won national, local
and regional awards for writing.
He
is of Native heritage and identifies as BIPOC. In 2012 he suffered a brain
injury and has been diagnosed with a mental illness — Pseudobulbar Affect. He
has also been diagnosed as a hemipelagic.
He
is retired and lives in central Florida with his wife and service dog.