It?s another new year and with it another writing prompt from your friends here at tinywords. A writer’s inspiration is a mystery indeed and this shaft of light might strike a creative chord. Certainly, it speaks to being in the right place at the right time. Much like capturing just the right words in a poem.
The image of sunlight filtering down through eroded sandstone was captured inside Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon on Navajo land east of Page, Arizona. We invite you to set it to your own words and submit your short poems in the comment section below.
The best of the best will start up our new tinywords issue 16.1 due out in mid-March.
Happy New Year one and all.
being there
this very short moment
the sun can reach me
Light ignites colors of fire
burns in a canyon’s stone-cold soul
.
reaching out
to slow down a cloud…
the astronaut's nose
Alan Summers
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This simulation of a close-up view of an astronaut's face against the sky is delightfully unhinged.
Garry
Thanks Garry! :-)
It is partly intentionally surreal, partly literal for an astronaut out in deep space. But also that we are all astronauts, on a planet sailing through the cosmos, both literally, as well as internally.
many thanks,
Alan
deep light
the space ship of my childhood
has landed
Having spotted nothing of interest, the alien craft speeds away from the blue planet.
illuminated
age lines
surrounded by beauty
agramzu
finding my focal point
sacred in antiquity
years sweep slowly
twisting amber canyons ::
rose quartz campions
Are you there?
A flashlight
in the hand of God
Sunlight and dust
all that remains
where the goddess stood
The great otoscope
in a sandstone ear
listening
sculpted rock bowl
and pour of liquid light
spotlight dance
Curvaceous canyons
of layered sandstone
caressed by waters,
now subsided, only
to spotlight their
iridescent depths,
annunciating the
myriad beauties of
an aboriginal land.
in the papery folds
of a rose–
the sun
I like it, Jo. Very creative.
Thanks, Mike.
Surprising what light can do-love it.
Thanks so much JT.Sure appreciate your support.
like your poetry
eroded sandstone my empty spaces
(Previously published in No Longer Strangers: Haiku Northwest 25th Anniversary Anthology 2014
Tanya McDonald, Marilyn Sandall, Michelle Schaefer, Angela Terry, editors)
cosmic blasts
this stoic rock …
spilling my guts
Angelo B. Ancheta
a bridge for the sun
……..down wall
….from ledges
onto dry
……..river
…………..bed
……………….noon
……………………leaks
a shaft of light
strikes the canyon floor
sandstone transfigured
brilliant sunlight
ignites the canyon floor
sculpted sandstone
a cathedral of silence
long unbroken
waits
for the umpteenth
coming of the rains
the light of which star
in which stone manger
a stone rose
the sun shines every day
Antelope Canyon
framed in my basement office
sun rays worm their way
into slivers of space
morning breaks with hope,
the body a perfect shell
sandstone kiva
ancestral voices
traverse a sunbeam
a sunray
fits this rocken cavern
light spirit
at the bottom
the light from the top
all in one piece
just enough light
for sandstone to bloom
desert flower
desert winds
the canyon fills
with light
even in deep depths
there is always
the hope of light
gleaming eye of the sun
white on gold
serenity
Earth opens her womb,
Giving life to
The new light.
how light slips
between the strata
of memory
into the golden cavern…
a waterfall of sunlight
Dry white light again
Pours warmth across my rock face
Again I know love
rays embracing
my each breast cell …
chemotherapy
from sunbeam
to stalagmite
canyon floor
in the teeth of the earth:
an angel from the sun
on an empty stage
dust and flies
become stars
David Davies
cascading light
in golden canyons
fill my eyes in delight
corn field
my son scans the sky
for a UFO
when the echo
echoed
all harmony
Amazing light beam.
Why just in that special spot?
Perchance a message.
Jean Stasi
childhood hideout
a beam of light touches
the magic
ray of light
seen by no one
shines brightly
mottled sandstone,
striated shadows,
descending particles
lit by the hands of the gods
antelope canyon
staring too long leaves
black spot on page
In the stillness after sorrow
illumination
A handful of sand
thrown into the open space
reveals the hidden message
the shaft of light
violates
an eroded sandstone
the shaft of light
penetrates a cracked sandstone
on a canyon floor
empty?
not at all…
This space is filled
with the lightness
of soft landing
light
in the canyon…
snowdrops
soundless shaft of light
swirls the sandstone walls
where waters once flowed
deep wounds…
the journey of light
through the canyon
I like this haiku.
Nature's altar
more holy and beautiful
than any cathedral
ancestral grotto
a shaft of light
add to reverence
Adjei Agyei-Baah
ancient cavern
a beam of light connects
living to the dead
Adjei Agyei-Baah
For a sparkling second
I am invisible and visible
glitter in that split stone
tunnel…
bits of existence
reconnect
creation
from the split atom
first breath
a chance for us
to make amends
starting over
ray of light
in the amber cave
enlightenment
sun rays
Antelope Canyon mirrors
a brown kaleidoscope
even in sunlight
the ancient walls
keep their secrets
you didn't
warn me when you
let me in —
your secret not at all
what I expected
forgiveness
a shaft of light
warms the darkness
dry chambers
coursing with sunlight-
heart of the earth
light sprouts
a canton veil
shoulders the sky
*canyon
Revised:
ancestral cavern
a ray through an opening
adds to reverence
Adjei Agyei-Baah
in a shaft of light
erosion
becomes art
A
sun shaft?
planting a kiss at the base
of his clavicle
give a girl a rest, pesky god
beamed up
by the sun god
sand angels
birth day –
warm light shining
from within
well within
our shine draws us
earthward
eyes closed
we listen
as the earth turns
millions of years flash by —
as God finger paints these corridors
light beams peak at His handiwork
cleft in the earth-
knapped from sandstone
filled with soul
first fire–
the glint in my grandson's
eye
the shepherd
far from green pastures
with his light
in the canyon’s passageways
and on this pockmarked me
homemade fudge . . .
I climb a sunray
back to Grandma's
how many colours
of gold are there…
ochre shadows
sun turns the keyhole
sand selenite rose unfolds
rock echoes water
once knowing
the fiercest fire
of him
desert cavern
the clashing mesh
of faraway photons
squeaky voice *
in antelope canyon
rising shadows
martin gottlieb cohen
February Navajo Moon Name (from a 1945 Department of Defense Document)
https://youtu.be/Bmi4TymL-ow
spring dawn —
spotlight on my
deepest secrets
I like this poem.
Thank you! You've made my day :)
pierced through —
the reawakening
of my soul
Arizona . . .
sandstone and sunlight
erode together
antelope canyon . . .
sandstone curves into the slope
of sunlight
Navajo sun
carved into a canyon
sandstone
…and within the quiet of man's life
deep in a cavern
of our own making—
muffled thunder
sun break
a winged seed
pop
for sandstone to bloom!
Only nature’s light
Can illuminate
what we need to see
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