Tinywords 13.1 Begins
We asked for your input and you sure gave it to us. Within a short time period you shared more than 200 responses to our photo prompt.
It really was a flurry of words. Thanks. We were happy to receive so many memorable poems inspired by Dave Bonta’s “New Ice” photograph. It wasn’t an easy decision, but there were two that stood out for us.
Congratulations to Susan Sanchez-Barnett and Gregory Longenecker for their coincidentally apt expressions of just how trying relationships can be.
We plan to make The Poetry Prompt a special feature between issues, each time with an new image by a different artist. So please continue visiting tinywords after 13.1 ends.
Thanks again for lending your voices. We now return you to our regularly scheduled online journal of haiku and other small poems.
Note: this issue’s background image comes from a photograph by Dave Bonta.
We begin tinywords 13.1 with our two winning poems.
–The Editorial Team of
t i n y w o r d s
too soon to call it love new ice
another crack
between us—
new ice
February 13th, 2013 at 9:06 am
I do love "another crack"! Well done…
February 13th, 2013 at 9:06 am
I really like both of these!
Well done. :)
marion
February 13th, 2013 at 10:50 am
Great
Loved them
February 13th, 2013 at 9:24 am
Lunch was incomplete
No alphabet soup today
For once stuck for words.
February 13th, 2013 at 9:40 am
Terrific work from both authors.
My favourite, just sneaking forward for me is:
too soon to call it love new ice
Gregory Longenecker
It moves away from the usual slant on cracks in a relationship, and focuses instead on a new promising relationship with new ice giving us multiple implications, including a romantic ice skating duet in New York, or on one of the many popular Christmas outdoor ice rinks in Britain.
Alan
February 13th, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Thanks Alan. I first thought along the negative slant and then the other came to me. Greg
February 13th, 2013 at 9:58 am
Reading them both makes each more powerful. Maybe that's because a venerable relationship just got a big new crack and it's too soon to know if the old love will mend.
February 13th, 2013 at 9:59 am
call it love too soon
makes it impossible to
swoon ever again
February 13th, 2013 at 11:12 am
swoon ever again
in the moonlight at midnight
on midsummer's eve
February 13th, 2013 at 3:23 pm
There really were so many to choose from. A great honor to read the words many gifted poets for this first ever TINYWORDS Poetry Prompt. Thanks to everyone who sent poems and / or visited the site for their daily dose of poetry.
February 13th, 2013 at 6:45 pm
protruding tender plant
springs out
wishing happy V.day
February 13th, 2013 at 9:14 pm
a fading rose
lies with weeds between stones–
valentine day
February 13th, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Congratulations to the winners, like both.
February 14th, 2013 at 12:02 am
new ice
on the nursery window
too soon for lost love
February 14th, 2013 at 12:05 am
so much said in such a compact line, nicely done greg
and how apt the punctuation in Susan's haiku; I can just see that crack. well done.
February 14th, 2013 at 11:56 am
Excellent, both are really good :) Maire
February 15th, 2013 at 3:57 am
snow and ice melting rivers run