Bells

Bells, clanging, tinkling, ringing, gonging bells.

Bells, the chiming percussive sounds abound.

Bells, tiny tinker bells, dark, dystopian Orwellian bells.

Bells of glory and warning, ding-dong-ding.

Bells, a signaling of what has passed, a harbinger

of that which is to come.

Bells, a pealing for what has been lost or won.

Bells, a call to school; recess is done.

Bells, let Freedom and Liberty ring.

Carol of the Bells at Christmastime.

Bells, slow and droning gongs of a funeral dirge.

Bells from a train or fire engine in motion.

Bells ringing the end of war.

Silver bells, hell’s bells, jingle bells, ching-a-ling,

hear them ring.

Bells, signaling the opening and closing of things.

Bells, a Sunday call to grace and a change of ways.

Bells from the church belfry set into pendulum

motion as Quasimodo swings from his rope

sounding the alarm.

A quote from John Dunne’s original poem,

No man is an island.

Entire of itself…

For Whom the Bell Tolls,

It tolls for thee

Ding-dong, the dog barks...Someone’s at the door!

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Chris Hanch 2-6-2020