The background image for 25.2 by Mark Searle is of another castle ruin, juxtaposed against the land, sea, and open sky: Rossbrin Castle in County Cork, Ireland. A bit of wabi-sabi beauty.
Congratulations to our three writing prompt winners, Sam Bateman, Dave Bonta, and Rich Schilling, whose poems appear below. Please be sure to scroll through and enjoy all the poems offered in response to our White Castle prompt image.
Many thanks to our Assistant Editors, Polona Oblak and Carol Ann Palomba, for their thoughtful reading, and to Dylan Tweney, founding editor and Technical Director, who keeps tinywords humming along year after year.
With tinywords 25.2 we will complete our twenty-fifth year of publication, a quarter century of tiny poems almost daily.
Fall is upon us here in the northern hemisphere so cozy up with your favorite sweater, if you need one, and prepare to wander through the seasons enjoying the company of a worldwide community of poets who have generously contributed their words to tinywords 25.2.
With gratitude,
The Tinywords Team
Prompt winners
Sam Bateman
castle ruins…
a secret passage
open to the sky
Dave Bonta
deep in ivy
the ruins of a castle
claimed by a wren
Rich Schilling
only a kestrel
to keep watch
castle ruins
Congratulations!
Alan
Alan Summers
Love how nature, in the form of birds and sky, inherit the castle, as well as the metaphoric castle in these haiku. Wonderful!
All good!
Love the words that created a lonely castle in my mind.
beautiful poems, I specially resonate with the first one by Sam Bateman
Three lovely haiku – a great way to start the new issue. So good to see your poem amongst them Dave.