Welcome to tinywords 19.1

We begin our 19th year with an international crop of daily poems that will take us deep into the dog days of summer here in the northern hemisphere. For this issue’s background image we share this other-worldly photo of the ArtScience Museum on the island city-state of Singapore. We think this strikingly spare architecture reflects the similar qualities for a successful small poem.

Congratulations to Carole MacRury and Ellen Grace Olinger who jump-start the issue with their winning poems inspired by Jay Sterling Austin’s “Marigny Vernacular.” Their poems are featured below.

Thanks to tinywords Assistant Editors Polona Oblak, Ruth Holzer and Brad Bennett for their thoughtful reading. Also to founding editor Dylan Tweney who continues to be an integral part of the tinywords editorial team.

Here is to another year of hope and love and thanks — all tiny words that inspire many of the fine poets that follow.

Enjoy.

Kathe L. Palka
Peter Newton
Editors, tinywords

 

 

from the house
with three red doors 
. . . jazz riffs
          ~ Carole MacRury

 

Wisconsin winter 
I add a few more colors
to a blog post     
          ~ Ellen Grace Olinger

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Issue 19.1 | 24 March 2019

17 Responses

  1. Alan Summers Says:
    March 24th, 2019 at 10:09 am

    Congratulations!!!!!!!!! :-)

    warmest regards,

    Alan
    Call of the Page

  2. Mike Schoenburg Says:
    March 24th, 2019 at 10:40 am

    Boca Raton winter
    the palm trees are going
    coco-nuts ??

  3. Arlene Teck Says:
    March 24th, 2019 at 10:45 am

    here
    on Saint Patrick's Day
    crocus points

  4. seaviewwarrenpoint Says:
    March 24th, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    Thanks to the tinywords editorial team for continuing to host such a great venue for short form poetry – and well done to Carole and Ellen, whose work always inspires!

  5. Peggy Bilbro Says:
    March 24th, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    dandelions
    softening the corners
    brick on brick

  6. janewilliams Says:
    March 24th, 2019 at 7:26 pm

    Beautiful, both!

    coloring my world all the tunes I never learned

  7. Natalia L Rudychev Says:
    March 24th, 2019 at 8:55 pm

    Truly enjoyed the work by Carole and Ellen!

    Hudson River

    both ways

    to spring

  8. Mary Jo Balistreri Says:
    March 25th, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Congratulations.
    Well done Carole and Ellen.

    Warmest wishes,
    Jo

  9. Helen Buckingham Says:
    March 25th, 2019 at 8:31 am

    Congratulations to you both…..Carole's was one of my favourites!

  10. Barbara Kaufmann Says:
    March 25th, 2019 at 9:39 am

    Congratulations Carole and Ellen! I loved both of these.

    early spring
    the long wait for the wind
    to quiet down

  11. Debbie Feller Says:
    March 25th, 2019 at 1:35 pm

    Wonderful work, dear Carole and Ellen! Yay!

    door wreath of
    pastel eggs
    longing for deeper hues

  12. Kashinath Karmakar Says:
    March 26th, 2019 at 12:39 am

    Congratulations!

  13. Ellen Grace Olinger Says:
    March 26th, 2019 at 6:06 am

    Thank you to the Editors and everyone here. I remember the early years and Dylan Tweney's vision for tinywords. And now your 19th year begins. Best wishes, Ellen

  14. Jan Says:
    March 27th, 2019 at 1:05 am

    Carole
    Such ajoy.
    .
    Well done Ellen, too
    .
    Jan in Texas

  15. Carole MacRury Says:
    March 27th, 2019 at 1:45 am

    Thanks all! A nice surprise while on vacation and especially happy to share it with Ellen. Lovely haiku Ellen! :-)

  16. terry493 Says:
    March 29th, 2019 at 2:56 pm

    so many stars –
    last year's roses
    ready to bloom

  17. Gaby Bedetti Says:
    March 31st, 2019 at 11:40 am

    Carole and Ellen's haiku, so rich yet effortless

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