We asked for your input and you sure gave it to us. Within a short time period you shared more than 200 responses to our photo prompt.
It really was a flurry of words. Thanks. We were happy to receive so many memorable poems inspired by Dave Bonta’s “New Ice” photograph. It wasn’t an easy decision, but there were two that stood out for us.
Congratulations to Susan Sanchez-Barnett and Gregory Longenecker for their coincidentally apt expressions of just how trying relationships can be.
We plan to make The Poetry Prompt a special feature between issues, each time with an new image by a different artist. So please continue visiting tinywords after 13.1 ends.
Thanks again for lending your voices. We now return you to our regularly scheduled online journal of haiku and other small poems.
Note: this issue’s background image comes from a photograph by Dave Bonta.
We begin tinywords 13.1 with our two winning poems.
–The Editorial Team of
t i n y w o r d s
too soon to call it love new ice
another crack
between us—
new ice
I do love "another crack"! Well done…
I really like both of these!
Well done. :)
marion
Great
Loved them
Lunch was incomplete
No alphabet soup today
For once stuck for words.
Terrific work from both authors.
My favourite, just sneaking forward for me is:
too soon to call it love new ice
Gregory Longenecker
It moves away from the usual slant on cracks in a relationship, and focuses instead on a new promising relationship with new ice giving us multiple implications, including a romantic ice skating duet in New York, or on one of the many popular Christmas outdoor ice rinks in Britain.
Alan
Thanks Alan. I first thought along the negative slant and then the other came to me. Greg
Reading them both makes each more powerful. Maybe that's because a venerable relationship just got a big new crack and it's too soon to know if the old love will mend.
call it love too soon
makes it impossible to
swoon ever again
swoon ever again
in the moonlight at midnight
on midsummer's eve
There really were so many to choose from. A great honor to read the words many gifted poets for this first ever TINYWORDS Poetry Prompt. Thanks to everyone who sent poems and / or visited the site for their daily dose of poetry.
protruding tender plant
springs out
wishing happy V.day
a fading rose
lies with weeds between stones–
valentine day
Congratulations to the winners, like both.
new ice
on the nursery window
too soon for lost love
so much said in such a compact line, nicely done greg
and how apt the punctuation in Susan's haiku; I can just see that crack. well done.
Excellent, both are really good :) Maire
snow and ice melting rivers run