This edition features a familiar yet otherworldly background image. Hot air balloons in flight never looked so darkly unusual, in our opinion. Somehow, these balloons seemed to pair well with the current times. We are all living in a once familiar world that is becoming ever more strange at this point in history. From wars and economic threats, to climate change and everything in between, these are worrisome times.
We hope that a small dose of poetry each day might bring a welcome diversion from the chaos.
Congratulations to our two most recent writing prompt winners, Claudette Russell and Ann Sullivan, whose poems appear below. Be sure to scroll through and enjoy all the poems offered in response to our photo prompt of the Great Reno Balloon Race.
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 the TINYWORDS website up and running year after year.
Time now to enjoy the poetry of a worldwide community of poets who have again generously shared their work for TINYWORDS 26.2.
Thank you,
Kathe L Palka
Peter Newton,
Co-Editors
Prompt winners:
shifting shapes
of hot air balloons …
desert peyote
–Ann Sullivan
balloon race
our laughter
untethered
–Claudette Russel