Welcome to tinywords 22.1
Our new background image for this issue is of a magnificent old saguaro reaching up into an Arizona blue sky. A picture of hope and health in the form of a long-lived cacti that must overcome great hardship to endure and thrive.
As we enter into our twenty-third year it is once again a privilege for us here at TINYWORDS to present more new and known voices from around the globe. Congratulations to Sam Bateman who opens the new issue with his winning poem inspired by our prompt image of a rural Arizona road in the Sonoran Desert. Sam’s poem is featured below. As always, the many fine inspired offerings make the photo prompt submissions well worth reading.
Thanks again to TINYWORDS Assistant Editors Polona Oblak and Ruth Holzer, and to founding editor Dylan Tweney, who also serves as our technical advisor and web page designer.
To all of the poets who sent in their poems for 22.1, and to the readers who return year after year, we again say thank you.
We wish you all the very best now and in the seasons ahead.
The Editors
Prompt Winner
migrant crossing—
one saguaro leans
on another
–Sam Bateman
March 27th, 2022 at 10:12 am
Congratulations!
Alan
March 27th, 2022 at 10:19 am
Congratulations!
March 27th, 2022 at 11:39 am
The giant cactus
Is enjoying his cigar
Puffing smoke in the sky
March 27th, 2022 at 11:45 am
Congratulations!
March 27th, 2022 at 11:52 am
Congrats!
March 27th, 2022 at 11:56 am
Congratulations – an amazing, insightful combination of images.
March 27th, 2022 at 5:34 pm
Thanks to everyone for their comments. Also, thanks to the editors for their hard work preparing another issue of tinywords.
March 27th, 2022 at 5:43 pm
We do this together!
–Peter
March 27th, 2022 at 6:20 pm
Congratulations and Thanks
Here’s a renga add on:
This damned border wall
A prickly situation
Cotton-picking shame
March 27th, 2022 at 11:51 pm
Congratulations!
March 28th, 2022 at 2:10 am
Congratulations!
March 28th, 2022 at 2:53 am
A wonderfully prickly image! Congrats.
March 28th, 2022 at 7:35 am
Congratulations
saguaro spires
notre dame cathedral
inspiring
enjoy this moment
nim
April 2nd, 2022 at 4:46 am
Well done! Congratulations!
April 24th, 2022 at 12:12 pm
Beautiful!
So well done.
April 25th, 2022 at 7:07 pm
Sounds great!