Submissions to tinywords 23.1 — and a new writing prompt

photo of a fuzzy moth hovering next to purple lavender blossoms

tinywords 22.2 has now ended with Kerry J. Heckman’s “telescope images”. The submission window for tinywords 23.1 will open on February 1st and remain open until the end of the month. Sending regular submissions to tinywords is a simple two-step process:

1 – Just check out our guidelines at https://tinywords.com/about/ and then

2 – Click on this link to submit your work: https://tinywords.com/submit/

We’ll accept submissions from Feb. 1 through Feb. 28,  2023. Please send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue, which will start in March or April.

While we work on the next issue, how about a new writing prompt?

Our photo prompt image, above, is an award-winning close-up by Thorsten Denhard. Take a look at this alien-like being: the macroglossom stellatarum in flight near lavender. Better known as a hummingbird hawk-moth, this insect’s movement perfectly echoes the flight of an actual hummingbird. A fascinating and cool little creature that really holds your attention when you see one hovering like it does. A veritable poem in and of itself. We hope it inspires you to create one of your own. Or maybe two. Be sure to share them 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 at the start of tinywords 23.1, due out in late March, 2023.

Thanks again for dropping by. And, as always, good writing.

Be well,

The Editors

78 thoughts on “Submissions to tinywords 23.1 — and a new writing prompt”

  1. garden party
    heartbeat racing
    our eyes meet
    _____

    hostess greets us
    sweet scent lingering
    at shoulder height
    _____

    Stay inspired!

  2. stilled
    against blurred lavender
    on the horns of a mystery

    beating furiously
    to hover upright
    o my heart

  3. spring fling
    unable to resist
    the smell of purple
    ***
    faster than
    the speed of light
    your identity

  4. violet dawn
    you hover the waters
    in my heart

    —-

    a flicker of yearning
    for my lonesome hours
    who can tell apart
    these tears
    from the dew

  5. Summer Songs

    Tiptoeing among
    lavender and alyssum
    Bees hum summer songs.

    Fellow pollinator
    Hummingbird impersonator,
    Hawk Moth
    Hovers among scents of summer
    Buzzing its own song.

  6. sweetness the whir of burning wings

    humming
    hawk
    bird
    moth
    what it's about

    icarus the urge to pollinate

    hawk moth
    the scent of sunlight
    in lavender

  7. lavender blossoms
    a hummingbird hawk-moth
    uncurls its tongue

    ***

    star-crossed lovers
    lavender blossom meets
    hummingbird hawk-moth

    ***

    fall twilight a flash mob of hummingbird moths

    (this last one is based on the hummingbird moths where I live)

  8. paths across the bay
    each foot step writes our name
    tides erase errors

    __Nature should never be set aside; that surge of tides… always teaches and honors civility. _m

  9. flickers of summer hum those early years

    summers hovering a pause in hostilities

    far from languid moth googling the lavandula

    Provence awaiting another van Gogh

  10. the blur of a hawk-moth
    humming among
    notes of lavender

    ***
    the hum of the hawk-moth
    probing the notes
    of lavender

    ***
    hummingbird hawk-moth
    I do a double take
    in the blur of lavender

    1. lavender bouquet
      nerves humming before the date
      a hawk-moth in flight

      (sorry for the double post. Should've just included this in my first post)

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