Submissions to tinywords 23.2 — and a new writing prompt
tinywords 23.1 has now ended with Tony William’s haiku “one large wave”. We will be on pause until the next issue, 23.2, begins in a month or two.
The submission window for tinywords 23.2 opened on August 1st and will remain open until the end of the month. Sending regular submissions to tinywords is a simple two-step process. Just check out our guidelines and send in your work using the form on the Submissions Page from Aug. 1 through Aug. 31, 2023. Please send us your haiku, small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue: tinywords 23.2.
To keep things lively while we work on the next issue, we present a new writing prompt: A photo image captured by Anthony Catalano of the sculpture Damascus Gate created by Walter Dusenbery, which resides at the magical sculpture garden/museum Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, USA. We hope this majestic gate sculpture will draw you in and help to inspire you to write a tiny poem or two in response. 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 in tinywords 23.2, due out in late September, 2023.
This is an ekphrastic challenge spanning centuries. The original Damascus Gate is the main gate along the northern wall of the old city of Jerusalem.
Thanks again for dropping by. We look forward to reading what you have to say.
Be well,
The editors
August 17th, 2023 at 9:06 am
rusty gate the snail left long ago
Alan Summers
August 17th, 2023 at 9:13 am
creeping over steps
to soften hard surfaces
wild grasses
August 17th, 2023 at 11:35 am
Damascus gate…
following the scent
of jasmine
August 17th, 2023 at 11:38 am
diaspores . . . drifting through the doorway
August 17th, 2023 at 12:39 pm
sculpture garden
I hear
the solitude
August 17th, 2023 at 2:11 pm
Damascus Gate . . .
the soft footfalls of
pilgrims in sandals
August 17th, 2023 at 5:11 pm
open gate…
embracing the life
of a pilgrim
August 17th, 2023 at 5:11 pm
open gate
embracing the life
of a pilgrim
August 18th, 2023 at 8:29 am
up-side down
this saucer's thought gate opens
rusted hinges sing
August 18th, 2023 at 9:18 am
this gateless gate–
always arriving
with each step
August 18th, 2023 at 10:13 am
Damascus gate…
this new life
after the stone
August 18th, 2023 at 11:38 am
step by step —
an infinity of green
beckons
August 18th, 2023 at 12:13 pm
sculpture garden
the gated city of art
always open
August 18th, 2023 at 2:57 pm
home planet
up in smoke
no more baby steps
-Helen Buckingham
(I'm posting on her behalf)
August 19th, 2023 at 12:10 am
following
the summer sun –
old gate
August 19th, 2023 at 8:45 pm
the wicket gate
moans one last time
demolition
August 19th, 2023 at 8:52 pm
moving closer
to my favourite star
one step at a time
August 20th, 2023 at 2:22 am
time travel
the portal
less traveled
August 20th, 2023 at 7:31 am
pilgrimage…
how the walls
fall away
August 20th, 2023 at 8:49 am
beyond
the threshold
tomorrow
August 20th, 2023 at 9:10 am
meditation…
every blade of grass
still
August 20th, 2023 at 9:15 am
open gate . . .
always arriving
with each step
August 20th, 2023 at 11:31 am
a garden kept tame –
step altars alter step
to on to empty way
sorry, 'desks' are hard for me
here's a today plein air, why not share?
oh yeah,..the prompt.
but…
distant lightning –
dry snap
of bug zapper.
i wish you all wise love.
August 20th, 2023 at 4:57 pm
shed snakeskin…
the long path
behind me
August 20th, 2023 at 5:08 pm
shed snakeskin…
the fresh path
ahead
August 21st, 2023 at 2:04 am
wildfire . . .
the need to hug
ravaged walls
August 21st, 2023 at 2:16 am
who knows
when the struggle will end?
Damascus Gate
August 21st, 2023 at 7:10 am
snail at the temple gate
soft footsteps
of the pilgrims
August 21st, 2023 at 4:53 pm
creaking gate
the invisible river
of a thousand souls
August 22nd, 2023 at 9:12 am
peaceful garden
the gate I pass through
not yet pearly
August 22nd, 2023 at 9:13 am
empty sculpture garden
nothing to impede
this pilgrim’s progress
August 22nd, 2023 at 11:20 am
people pass
tall grass on their journeys —
gray clouds bring rain
August 26th, 2023 at 3:15 am
cloudy day
a web weaved
from silver linings
August 27th, 2023 at 12:12 pm
threshold
almost seeing
the other side
August 28th, 2023 at 9:51 am
stairway to heaven one more step
(Marianne Paul)
August 28th, 2023 at 12:07 pm
gateless portal
the freedom to
pursue dreams
August 29th, 2023 at 1:25 am
Damascului Gate…
looking for a way
back to youth
August 29th, 2023 at 1:27 am
Damascus Gate…
a way towards dreams
of history
August 29th, 2023 at 1:28 am
old gate…
its only guardian
summer sky
August 31st, 2023 at 12:34 pm
ancient gate…
imagining
no borders
open sky
open gate…
a life transformed
September 1st, 2023 at 7:48 am
___ life's path ___
Grand Kim_!
My image, as I've felt by your last line. [ Life's (path) transformed. ] _m
September 7th, 2023 at 5:29 am
wind without color
still in the continuum—
slowly dig deeper
September 7th, 2023 at 7:01 am
the shadow angles
cushion each nook and cranny—
border of autumn
September 15th, 2023 at 11:05 am
Ekphrasis
An ivy grown opening from carefully tended garden to garden, a portal for contemplation that consciously invokes a Holy Land . . . Noisy, vibrant, politically contested, a great place to buy snacks on Ramadan evenings, a crenellated gate through Suleiman the First's fortifications of Jerusalem
sun-warmed rock
subtle patterns in sandstone
span worlds
September 17th, 2023 at 2:48 pm
new gateway
a portal
awaiting a wall
September 22nd, 2023 at 9:25 am
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