Writing prompt for tinywords 16.1
Antelope Canyon. Photo by Lucas L?ffler.
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.
February 8th, 2016 at 10:33 am
being there
this very short moment
the sun can reach me
February 8th, 2016 at 10:34 am
Light ignites colors of fire
burns in a canyon’s stone-cold soul
February 8th, 2016 at 10:34 am
.
reaching out
to slow down a cloud…
the astronaut's nose
Alan Summers
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February 8th, 2016 at 2:27 pm
This simulation of a close-up view of an astronaut's face against the sky is delightfully unhinged.
Garry
February 8th, 2016 at 2:43 pm
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
February 8th, 2016 at 10:49 am
deep light
the space ship of my childhood
has landed
February 8th, 2016 at 11:00 am
Having spotted nothing of interest, the alien craft speeds away from the blue planet.
February 8th, 2016 at 11:02 am
illuminated
age lines
surrounded by beauty
February 8th, 2016 at 11:04 am
agramzu
finding my focal point
sacred in antiquity
February 8th, 2016 at 11:06 am
years sweep slowly
twisting amber canyons ::
rose quartz campions
February 8th, 2016 at 11:06 am
Are you there?
A flashlight
in the hand of God
February 8th, 2016 at 11:09 am
Sunlight and dust
all that remains
where the goddess stood
February 8th, 2016 at 11:15 am
The great otoscope
in a sandstone ear
listening
February 8th, 2016 at 11:19 am
sculpted rock bowl
and pour of liquid light
spotlight dance
February 8th, 2016 at 11:24 am
Curvaceous canyons
of layered sandstone
caressed by waters,
now subsided, only
to spotlight their
iridescent depths,
annunciating the
myriad beauties of
an aboriginal land.
February 8th, 2016 at 11:57 am
in the papery folds
of a rose–
the sun
February 26th, 2016 at 10:55 am
I like it, Jo. Very creative.
February 26th, 2016 at 1:55 pm
Thanks, Mike.
February 26th, 2016 at 3:29 pm
Surprising what light can do-love it.
February 26th, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Thanks so much JT.Sure appreciate your support.
February 28th, 2016 at 9:36 am
like your poetry
February 8th, 2016 at 1:16 pm
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)
February 8th, 2016 at 1:34 pm
cosmic blasts
this stoic rock …
spilling my guts
Angelo B. Ancheta
February 8th, 2016 at 2:22 pm
a bridge for the sun
……..down wall
….from ledges
onto dry
……..river
…………..bed
……………….noon
……………………leaks
February 8th, 2016 at 2:32 pm
a shaft of light
strikes the canyon floor
sandstone transfigured
February 8th, 2016 at 2:35 pm
brilliant sunlight
ignites the canyon floor
sculpted sandstone
February 8th, 2016 at 2:45 pm
a cathedral of silence
long unbroken
waits
for the umpteenth
coming of the rains
February 8th, 2016 at 3:07 pm
the light of which star
in which stone manger
a stone rose
February 8th, 2016 at 3:14 pm
the sun shines every day
Antelope Canyon
framed in my basement office
February 8th, 2016 at 3:25 pm
sun rays worm their way
into slivers of space
February 8th, 2016 at 3:29 pm
morning breaks with hope,
the body a perfect shell
February 8th, 2016 at 4:09 pm
sandstone kiva
ancestral voices
traverse a sunbeam
February 8th, 2016 at 4:29 pm
a sunray
fits this rocken cavern
light spirit
February 8th, 2016 at 4:29 pm
at the bottom
the light from the top
all in one piece
February 8th, 2016 at 4:48 pm
just enough light
for sandstone to bloom
desert flower
February 8th, 2016 at 4:48 pm
desert winds
the canyon fills
with light
February 8th, 2016 at 5:16 pm
even in deep depths
there is always
the hope of light
February 8th, 2016 at 6:39 pm
gleaming eye of the sun
white on gold
serenity
February 8th, 2016 at 6:55 pm
Earth opens her womb,
Giving life to
The new light.
February 8th, 2016 at 7:35 pm
how light slips
between the strata
of memory
February 8th, 2016 at 8:13 pm
into the golden cavern…
a waterfall of sunlight
February 8th, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Dry white light again
Pours warmth across my rock face
Again I know love
February 8th, 2016 at 8:48 pm
rays embracing
my each breast cell …
chemotherapy
February 8th, 2016 at 10:36 pm
from sunbeam
to stalagmite
canyon floor
February 9th, 2016 at 2:10 am
in the teeth of the earth:
an angel from the sun
February 9th, 2016 at 2:59 am
on an empty stage
dust and flies
become stars
David Davies
February 9th, 2016 at 3:19 am
cascading light
in golden canyons
fill my eyes in delight
February 9th, 2016 at 3:56 am
corn field
my son scans the sky
for a UFO
February 9th, 2016 at 5:19 am
when the echo
echoed
all harmony
February 9th, 2016 at 9:05 am
Amazing light beam.
Why just in that special spot?
Perchance a message.
Jean Stasi
February 9th, 2016 at 9:10 am
childhood hideout
a beam of light touches
the magic
February 9th, 2016 at 10:49 am
ray of light
seen by no one
shines brightly
February 9th, 2016 at 4:24 pm
mottled sandstone,
striated shadows,
descending particles
lit by the hands of the gods
February 9th, 2016 at 5:59 pm
antelope canyon
staring too long leaves
black spot on page
February 9th, 2016 at 6:08 pm
In the stillness after sorrow
illumination
February 9th, 2016 at 6:17 pm
A handful of sand
thrown into the open space
reveals the hidden message
February 9th, 2016 at 8:29 pm
the shaft of light
violates
an eroded sandstone
February 9th, 2016 at 8:34 pm
the shaft of light
penetrates a cracked sandstone
on a canyon floor
February 9th, 2016 at 9:06 pm
empty?
not at all…
This space is filled
with the lightness
of soft landing
February 10th, 2016 at 2:57 am
light
in the canyon…
snowdrops
February 10th, 2016 at 10:47 am
soundless shaft of light
swirls the sandstone walls
where waters once flowed
February 10th, 2016 at 10:59 am
deep wounds…
the journey of light
through the canyon
February 29th, 2016 at 10:21 am
I like this haiku.
February 10th, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Nature's altar
more holy and beautiful
than any cathedral
February 11th, 2016 at 7:21 am
ancestral grotto
a shaft of light
add to reverence
Adjei Agyei-Baah
February 11th, 2016 at 7:23 am
ancient cavern
a beam of light connects
living to the dead
Adjei Agyei-Baah
February 11th, 2016 at 12:09 pm
For a sparkling second
I am invisible and visible
glitter in that split stone
February 11th, 2016 at 12:20 pm
tunnel…
bits of existence
reconnect
February 12th, 2016 at 4:00 am
creation
from the split atom
first breath
February 12th, 2016 at 8:58 am
a chance for us
to make amends
starting over
February 12th, 2016 at 12:02 pm
ray of light
in the amber cave
enlightenment
February 13th, 2016 at 8:24 am
sun rays
Antelope Canyon mirrors
a brown kaleidoscope
February 13th, 2016 at 1:26 pm
even in sunlight
the ancient walls
keep their secrets
February 13th, 2016 at 2:29 pm
you didn't
warn me when you
let me in —
your secret not at all
what I expected
February 14th, 2016 at 6:22 am
forgiveness
a shaft of light
warms the darkness
February 14th, 2016 at 4:34 pm
dry chambers
coursing with sunlight-
heart of the earth
February 15th, 2016 at 2:58 am
light sprouts
a canton veil
shoulders the sky
February 15th, 2016 at 6:34 am
*canyon
February 15th, 2016 at 12:09 pm
Revised:
ancestral cavern
a ray through an opening
adds to reverence
Adjei Agyei-Baah
February 16th, 2016 at 11:06 am
in a shaft of light
erosion
becomes art
February 16th, 2016 at 5:16 pm
A
February 17th, 2016 at 10:10 am
sun shaft?
planting a kiss at the base
of his clavicle
February 17th, 2016 at 2:13 pm
give a girl a rest, pesky god
February 18th, 2016 at 5:42 am
beamed up
by the sun god
sand angels
February 18th, 2016 at 11:43 am
birth day –
warm light shining
from within
February 18th, 2016 at 3:20 pm
well within
our shine draws us
earthward
February 19th, 2016 at 10:16 am
eyes closed
we listen
as the earth turns
February 20th, 2016 at 1:21 pm
millions of years flash by —
as God finger paints these corridors
light beams peak at His handiwork
February 20th, 2016 at 5:21 pm
cleft in the earth-
knapped from sandstone
filled with soul
February 20th, 2016 at 5:54 pm
first fire–
the glint in my grandson's
eye
February 21st, 2016 at 2:25 pm
the shepherd
far from green pastures
with his light
in the canyon’s passageways
and on this pockmarked me
February 22nd, 2016 at 4:39 pm
homemade fudge . . .
I climb a sunray
back to Grandma's
February 23rd, 2016 at 12:21 am
how many colours
of gold are there…
ochre shadows
February 23rd, 2016 at 11:58 am
sun turns the keyhole
sand selenite rose unfolds
rock echoes water
February 23rd, 2016 at 2:32 pm
once knowing
the fiercest fire
of him
February 24th, 2016 at 12:35 am
desert cavern
the clashing mesh
of faraway photons
February 24th, 2016 at 6:15 am
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
February 24th, 2016 at 10:34 am
spring dawn —
spotlight on my
deepest secrets
February 27th, 2016 at 11:05 am
I like this poem.
February 27th, 2016 at 12:08 pm
Thank you! You've made my day :)
February 24th, 2016 at 2:53 pm
pierced through —
the reawakening
of my soul
February 25th, 2016 at 1:02 am
Arizona . . .
sandstone and sunlight
erode together
February 25th, 2016 at 1:05 am
antelope canyon . . .
sandstone curves into the slope
of sunlight
February 25th, 2016 at 1:07 am
Navajo sun
carved into a canyon
sandstone
February 25th, 2016 at 5:01 am
…and within the quiet of man's life
February 29th, 2016 at 3:33 am
deep in a cavern
of our own making—
muffled thunder
March 6th, 2016 at 9:08 am
sun break
a winged seed
pop
March 16th, 2016 at 5:55 pm
for sandstone to bloom!
April 2nd, 2016 at 7:47 am
Only nature’s light
Can illuminate
what we need to see
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September 3rd, 2018 at 4:48 am
i really enjoy my stay.