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Welcome to the newest issue of tinywords — 23.1. That means we’ve been sharing daily poems with all of you for 23 years strong. Quite an collaborative accomplishment. So, thank you all for writing and reading over these many years.

Our background image for this issue was taken by Jim Choate in Oregon and features a field of  lavender and Mt. Hood. A zoom in and zoom out of nature’s magnificent beauty.

Congratulations to our writing prompt winners Sam Bateman, Helen Buckingham, Rich Schilling, and Alan Summers whose poems appear below. Once again final choices were difficult due to the abundance of good responses. We have a few more favorites than usual. But that’s a good thing. Please be sure to scroll through and enjoy all the poems offered in response to our hummingbird hawk moth prompt.

Thanks again to our Assistant Editors, Polona Oblak and Ruth Holzer. And to Dylan Tweney, founding editor and Technical Director who keeps tinywords humming along season to season.

Spring is starting to show its colors here in the northern hemisphere. No better time to show the wide array of poets who have generously sent in their work for tinywords 23.1. Enjoy.

With gratitude,

Kathe L. Palka and Peter Newton

Writing Prompt Winners

taking me back to childhood wonder a hummingbird moth

 — Sam Bateman

lit match
lavender
catches

— Helen Buckingham

mingling with the bee buzz the hawk moth’s hum

— Rich Schilling

purple haze the smoke dwindles into moonrise

— Alan Summers