Writing prompt for tinywords 19.1
With Joanne E. Miller’s poem “every love story”?tinywords?18.2 also has ended. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by.
It’s time now to begin again. Our new submission period began as scheduled on February 1, 2019 and will continue throughout the entire month.
We will not be publishing daily poems while we prepare the next issue.
To keep things lively while we work on the new issue, we present this street of colorful houses titled “Marigny Vernacular” by Jay Sterling Austin as our new writing prompt. The Marigny is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. Even in the depths of winter, NOLA is a vibrant and colorful city that has inspired generations of ?writers and engendered many city nicknames.
Your writing prompt challenge is to pen a tiny original poem or two in response to this glimpse of The Big Easy. Leave your best efforts in the comment box below and the?tinywords?editorial team will share the best of the best in?tinywords?19.1, which is due out in late March.
Keep in mind, we will continue to?accept regular submissions for the next issue (issue 19.1) through the end of February, 2019.
Thanks for dropping by and for sharing your poems.
February 17th, 2019 at 12:37 pm
Shotgun House––
both barrels of sunlight
head the geese home
Alan Summers
February 17th, 2019 at 12:57 pm
once the red door
was all I had for comfort …
down memory lane
Kala Ramesh
February 17th, 2019 at 1:03 pm
exoskeleton
my shadow slips through
the railings
Kala Ramesh
February 17th, 2019 at 1:18 pm
a life led
color by color
starglint
Alan Summers
February 17th, 2019 at 1:26 pm
creole accent
the vibrant colors
of her life
February 17th, 2019 at 5:30 pm
I can hear the colors in this poem. I love it!
February 17th, 2019 at 1:29 pm
shotgun shack
a backfire clears
the living room
February 17th, 2019 at 1:31 pm
colorful doors-
which one leads
to Big Easy's heart
February 17th, 2019 at 1:32 pm
the old neighborhood
colorful people
brightened my childhood
February 17th, 2019 at 1:35 pm
shades of memories
behind
closed doors
February 17th, 2019 at 1:51 pm
each door…
realizing i'm locked
out
February 17th, 2019 at 1:57 pm
New Orleans
gang graffiti
on a recycle bin
February 17th, 2019 at 5:13 pm
very nice haiku
February 17th, 2019 at 1:59 pm
the simple words I write
opening
so many doors
February 17th, 2019 at 2:12 pm
years later
layers of paint cover
the water line
February 17th, 2019 at 2:15 pm
does color exist
our slow a.m. turn
toward the sun
February 17th, 2019 at 3:15 pm
A Jaq
In the neighborhood
My my
February 17th, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Three red doors two dormers
and saxophone lessons
sweet tea on hot nights
February 17th, 2019 at 3:27 pm
behind each closed door
imagined stories
unfold
February 17th, 2019 at 3:31 pm
vibrant morning
open up
them pearly gates!
February 17th, 2019 at 3:49 pm
So large in my mind
so small when I return
the house of my childhood
February 17th, 2019 at 3:57 pm
perfect neighborhood
all the colors
intermingling
February 17th, 2019 at 4:08 pm
inside a collection of colors improvisation begins
February 17th, 2019 at 4:12 pm
spring portal leads to portal tulip avenue
February 17th, 2019 at 4:21 pm
Shotgun- We live in the space between light's entrance and its exit.
February 17th, 2019 at 4:25 pm
a door opens
to empty space . . .
leaving home
February 17th, 2019 at 4:26 pm
coming home—
the door of my youth
painted blue
February 17th, 2019 at 4:39 pm
from the house
with three red doors
. . .jazz riffs
March 24th, 2019 at 10:11 am
Congratulations!!! :-)
Alan
February 17th, 2019 at 5:14 pm
street musician
all the doors
open at once
February 17th, 2019 at 5:18 pm
colorful houses
colorful residents
vibrant neighborhood
February 17th, 2019 at 5:25 pm
kaleidoscope
the scent of spring
in every color
February 17th, 2019 at 5:29 pm
through a crack in the sidewalk sunlit tulips
February 17th, 2019 at 5:35 pm
no lions no witches all doors lead to spring
February 17th, 2019 at 7:15 pm
generations
side by side
a baby cries
February 17th, 2019 at 8:22 pm
Water color
Flood water
Color flood
February 17th, 2019 at 8:24 pm
jambalaya days
a comfort of colors
the heat of jazz
February 17th, 2019 at 8:40 pm
another row
of funky tea drinks
shotgun shacks
February 17th, 2019 at 8:45 pm
in a world of color
the Big Easy dances
to a vibrant rhythm
February 17th, 2019 at 9:02 pm
foot-tappin'
folk rock funk pop . . .
shotgun shacks
February 17th, 2019 at 9:47 pm
morning sunshine
powdered sugar
on a warm beignet
February 17th, 2019 at 10:47 pm
old house –
my childhoo
in each room
February 17th, 2019 at 10:50 pm
old house –
my childhood
in each room
February 17th, 2019 at 10:55 pm
red yellow and blue –
all the colors
of my childhood
February 17th, 2019 at 11:06 pm
a little spring
even in midwinter –
Marigny Vernacular
February 17th, 2019 at 11:15 pm
colores sunrise –
the sun shines
on each door
February 18th, 2019 at 2:29 am
out side the box
thinking one way
living another
February 18th, 2019 at 5:26 am
postcard houses when all is said and done
February 18th, 2019 at 6:09 am
door to door collecting the rainbow
February 18th, 2019 at 6:10 am
red yellow green
how they painted
the odds
February 18th, 2019 at 8:08 am
a fresh coat of paint
can’t disguise
grandmother’s old place
the tiniest house
holds the biggest hugs
February 18th, 2019 at 8:40 am
colors of spring
beneath a clear blue sky
in thin winter sunlight
February 18th, 2019 at 10:53 am
painting shotguns
with saxophone blues
delta breeze n’est-ce pas?
February 18th, 2019 at 12:25 pm
the music of my childhood
played out
in colors
February 18th, 2019 at 12:33 pm
home again
behind every door
someone who remembers me
February 18th, 2019 at 12:51 pm
shotgun house
the pungence of shrimp gumbo
makes its way to the street
February 18th, 2019 at 1:02 pm
morning sun
touching the colors
of our dreams
February 18th, 2019 at 3:18 pm
all my wishes
behind the red door
The Marigny
February 18th, 2019 at 5:26 pm
repainting life
in primary colours
storm surge
February 19th, 2019 at 6:06 am
Wisconsin winter
I add a few more colors
to a blog post
March 24th, 2019 at 10:11 am
Congratulations!!! :-)
February 19th, 2019 at 1:35 pm
shotgun houses
still speak
NOLA lingua.
February 19th, 2019 at 2:15 pm
grandma waiting for me
at the top of the steps
I still remember
February 19th, 2019 at 5:50 pm
For Sale sign
Not quite
The right shade of red
February 19th, 2019 at 6:47 pm
Two mail slots in orange and yellow
One mailbox green
Little mail comes.
February 19th, 2019 at 6:49 pm
Backyard’s the Mississippi
Jelly Roll Morton notes float
Easy.
February 20th, 2019 at 1:33 am
dixieland dreams a jambalaya of sights sounds and tastes
February 21st, 2019 at 4:35 am
flames leap
in 4 / 4 time
spring heat
February 21st, 2019 at 6:59 am
easy living
our street
a painter's palette
February 21st, 2019 at 11:22 pm
and did Louis lean on
the lime green doors
trumpeting this history?
February 22nd, 2019 at 12:28 am
unfading
through distance and time
the color of home
February 22nd, 2019 at 3:59 am
closed doors-
the world inside each room
through cable network
-Kashinath Karmakar
February 22nd, 2019 at 4:51 am
fading colours–
the sky still
same blue
February 22nd, 2019 at 9:53 am
cloudless sky
a Marigny jazz trio
plays the blues
February 22nd, 2019 at 11:10 am
sunlight
squared
no flags
February 22nd, 2019 at 1:12 pm
many colors
in the box
nothing beats sky blue
February 24th, 2019 at 9:53 am
creole cottages
shimmy down the block
crocuses in bloom
February 24th, 2019 at 12:31 pm
when the doors
are opened —
music fills the length
February 24th, 2019 at 1:52 pm
beyond black and white a keyboard of colors
February 24th, 2019 at 5:42 pm
Quiet morning walk
Sweet breakfast smells in the air
Bright doors full of hope
February 25th, 2019 at 11:29 am
high noon
a blaring bugle
crescendo
February 26th, 2019 at 6:14 am
king cake street–
Mardi Gras palette
February 26th, 2019 at 7:19 am
Childhood neighbourhood
Each memory
Housed in different colours
February 26th, 2019 at 2:39 pm
carried home
on a long saxophone note
multicoloured blues
February 27th, 2019 at 10:34 pm
burgundy street blues
and the rest of the rainbow
in Marigny
February 28th, 2019 at 9:41 pm
Winter in the Marigny
hot jazz and vivid colors
almost melt the snow
Enter the Marigny
through turquoise, crimson, gold
exit winter’s bleakness
March 2nd, 2019 at 12:58 am
the old house
someone coloured
my past
March 4th, 2019 at 4:36 am
green even now
the pavement cracks
and plywood slats of home
Brittany Hause
March 9th, 2019 at 7:53 am
smell of gumbo
mingle with hot jazz
from the graveyard
March 15th, 2019 at 7:01 am
Wonderful post
March 17th, 2019 at 11:00 am
sunset walk
down a hawthorne lane
the fading scent of her
March 21st, 2019 at 9:10 pm
daydream pastel door
sidewalk late spring lightcast
big easy close quarters
March 24th, 2019 at 11:05 am
2009 – 2011 –
2013 – 2015
a vibrant walk
down memory lane