Submissions to tinywords 21.2 — and a new writing prompt
The heat of summer is still with us here in the northern hemisphere but fall is on the way. TINYWORDS 21.1 has now ended with Joanne van Helvoort’s “deep autumn”. The submission window for TINYWORDS 21.2 opened on August 1st, so if you haven’t yet and would like to, please send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue: TINYWORDS 21.2.
Sending work to TINYWORDS is a simple two-step process. Just check out our Guidelines and click on the Submissions Page from Aug. 1 through Aug. 31st, 2021. One month window, as usual.
To keep things interesting while we work on the new issue, we present a new writing prompt. This image by “Knowsphotos” titled “Cadillac Mountain Sunrise” was taken in Acadia National Park in Maine, USA. You can check out more of their photography at knowsphotos.com. We hope this magical and serene vision of the sunrise — from the location in North America where it is first visible — conjures a short poem or two. Maybe one of a brighter future.
Be sure to share it with us: Leave your best efforts in response to the photo prompt in the comment box below and the TINYWORDS editorial team will share the best of the best in TINYWORDS 21.2, due out in late September, 2021.
Thanks again for dropping by. We look forward to reading what you have to say.
August 25th, 2021 at 7:18 pm
soaking up
the last of summer's heat
my old bones
August 25th, 2021 at 7:20 pm
first light
before the mountain
the sea
August 25th, 2021 at 10:41 pm
before the light
the morning star
August 25th, 2021 at 8:36 pm
she grows
between the sun and sea
her shadow
August 25th, 2021 at 9:11 pm
Twilight sun appears
Before is clears the horizon
Atmospheric refraction
August 25th, 2021 at 9:15 pm
Early risers
Treated with twighlight palate
Peaceful beginnings
August 25th, 2021 at 9:34 pm
approaching autumn
a chill in my dream
August 26th, 2021 at 12:08 am
unsettled land
how blessed
this serenity
August 26th, 2021 at 12:09 am
awakenings
each bloom in turn
sun-kissed
August 26th, 2021 at 12:10 am
seasons end
trampled headlands
breathe again
August 26th, 2021 at 12:44 am
buddha rays
the blue-eyed-grass
in each sunrise
Alan Summers
August 26th, 2021 at 2:59 am
summer’s end
imaginary friends go
their own separate ways
August 26th, 2021 at 3:33 am
an ice-scraped land
before the frosts return
blossoms
August 26th, 2021 at 6:23 am
cool day at the shore
old pyroclastic flow
under my feet
August 26th, 2021 at 7:06 am
first north wind
summer passes
faster each year
August 26th, 2021 at 7:46 am
twilight dawn
the fading blue
in a blue jay's song
August 26th, 2021 at 8:13 am
at the deep end
the sky paints purple
along the horizon
August 26th, 2021 at 8:16 am
following the sun
the barnacled back
of a gray whale
August 26th, 2021 at 8:34 am
Skinned knee I hug
The rocks then myself rising,
Run again to Sunshine
August 26th, 2021 at 9:52 am
sunrise comes again
steeped in choirs of birdsong –
smile of gratitude
August 26th, 2021 at 2:34 pm
end of summer…
a touch of wistfulness
in the day flower
August 26th, 2021 at 4:42 pm
this uneven path
steppingstones
too far apart
August 26th, 2021 at 5:33 pm
after goodbye
the place I go
to be myself
Joseph P. Wechselberger
August 26th, 2021 at 5:39 pm
blue hour
my melancholy self-corrects
twice a day
August 27th, 2021 at 6:49 am
soft call of an owl
echoing the serenity of
sapphire twilight
August 27th, 2021 at 8:01 am
her granite bosom
lifted toward the east
catches first light
August 27th, 2021 at 10:59 am
Cadillac sunrise
a few dark clouds
notwithstanding
August 28th, 2021 at 1:25 am
highlighting the riots of colours,
a brush of grey clouds…
August 28th, 2021 at 7:11 am
i miss you
August 28th, 2021 at 8:40 am
sea-scented air
flows over the dunes
shades of emotions
as we walk home
into the sunrise
August 28th, 2021 at 10:22 pm
20th
wedding anniversary
we traverse
the same rocky ground
that brought us together
August 29th, 2021 at 12:03 am
Sun
sea &
rock n roll
August 29th, 2021 at 1:53 pm
sun rises
on Cadillac Mountain
wild flowers grow
in volcanic remains
from millions of years ago
August 30th, 2021 at 3:39 am
mountain sunrise
the road to get there
gridlocked
September 19th, 2021 at 2:51 am
So often the case. How we humans need a bit of sanity to get away from the reality we make ourselves.
August 30th, 2021 at 4:50 am
at first light
the mountain
glows again
August 30th, 2021 at 5:27 am
a new sun
the world forms
once again
August 30th, 2021 at 8:21 am
autumn walk . . .
my mother's shadow
lengthens into dusk
August 30th, 2021 at 12:11 pm
the cool breeze off Frenchman Bay
at sunrise
a whale's song
Joseph P. Wechselberger
August 30th, 2021 at 1:45 pm
stillness
only the sun
moving
August 30th, 2021 at 1:58 pm
rippled rock
the mountain flexes
a muscle
August 30th, 2021 at 8:03 pm
sunrise outlines
the dark shapes
of roosting owls
August 30th, 2021 at 9:37 pm
dawn on lichen
granite flowers
August 31st, 2021 at 5:10 am
fleeting beauty
yellow dusk
August 31st, 2021 at 8:26 am
sunrise …
from across the bay faint sounds
of a whale's song
Joseph P. Wechselberger
August 31st, 2021 at 9:00 am
wildflowers
the calm before
the storm
August 31st, 2021 at 1:17 pm
sun rises
climbs to shore
dripping lapis lazuli
September 1st, 2021 at 12:02 pm
sunrise …
autumn's colors
brighten
Joseph P. Wechselberger
September 4th, 2021 at 12:41 am
blue peach and gold mandatory sunrise
September 4th, 2021 at 12:31 pm
mere ticks on the skin
of a magic blue dragon
it's time we let live
September 6th, 2021 at 2:05 am
sunrise over sea rocks a world not yet sunk
September 9th, 2021 at 12:09 pm
end of summer…
the chill sinking
into my bones
September 14th, 2021 at 10:11 am
Sunrise on Mars
One of the landscapes on the way
To myself
September 15th, 2021 at 5:34 pm
mottled
blue marble
play with care
-Helen Buckingham
September 16th, 2021 at 8:26 am
Night Hawks
Steadily Silently
Winging as One.
Summer's Gone.
September 21st, 2021 at 10:08 pm
sunrise…
the breeze and I
hold our breath
September 24th, 2021 at 11:18 pm
sun scatters golden
blocks over rocks sea and sky …
peace permeates
sea and sky merge seamlessly
flowers glow in warm sun