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Category: Issue 13.1

New ice

New ice: Check out this photograph for inspiration and give us your poems in the comments.
Posted on 21 January 201327 December 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 13.1Tags ice, winter, writing prompt208 Comments on New ice

Tinywords 13.1 Begins

Welcome to the new issue of tinywords! Here are two haiku to get us started.
Posted on 13 February 201313 February 2013Author The EditorsCategories Issue 13.117 Comments on Tinywords 13.1 Begins
small town one red light Valentine’s Day
Posted on 14 February 201311 February 2013Author vincent tripiCategories Issue 13.112 Comments on
after the solstice waiting for the light to change  
Posted on 15 February 20137 February 2013Author Alexa SelphCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
war memorial the unhistoric fights I fought
Posted on 18 February 20137 February 2013Author Dietmar TauchnerCategories Issue 13.16 Comments on
winter chill wearing her grandson’s coat at the graveside
Posted on 19 February 201319 February 2013Author Sean CarltonCategories Issue 13.17 Comments on
winter stars . . . the name of my father of my father’s father  
Posted on 20 February 201310 February 2013Author Chad Lee RobinsonCategories Issue 13.110 Comments on
highway markers how quickly the future blurs into the past
Posted on 21 February 201310 February 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.17 Comments on
biopsy i am my heartbeat
Posted on 22 February 201310 February 2013Author Kirsten CliffCategories Issue 13.116 Comments on
cold moon . . . my mother goes to voicemail
Posted on 25 February 201310 February 2013Author Laurence StaceyCategories Issue 13.16 Comments on
our memories of him so very different swirling snowflakes
Posted on 26 February 201310 February 2013Author Cara HolmanCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
frozen lake — her intentions not so transparent
Posted on 27 February 201323 May 2025Author Jay FriedenbergCategories Issue 13.16 Comments on
winter dream— the pond’s breath trapped in ice
Posted on 28 February 201323 May 2025Author Susan MurataCategories Issue 13.19 Comments on
shorter days . . . wizened grapes cling to the vine
Posted on 1 March 201314 August 2020Author Anne CurranCategories Issue 13.15 Comments on
“Monday Morning Coffee Break” (a haibun)
Posted on 4 March 201323 May 2025Author Bob LuckyCategories Issue 13.14 Comments on
two baristas deconstruct their boyfriends all night rain
Posted on 5 March 20131 March 2013Author Marc ThompsonCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
cold winter rain the swollen creek also rushing home
Posted on 6 March 20131 March 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.19 Comments on
leaf in the wind . . . for one breath I imagine an end like this
Posted on 7 March 20131 March 2013Author Roman LyakhovetskyCategories Issue 13.120 Comments on
reminding myself this isn’t the first sunrise she didn’t see — just the first we saw without her
Posted on 8 March 20131 March 2013Author Jean LeBlancCategories Issue 13.17 Comments on
Kesennuma among the sunlit wrecks the sound of gulls
Posted on 11 March 201323 May 2025Author martin gottlieb cohenCategories Issue 13.17 Comments on
outgoing tide the old sailor’s gaze moves inward
Posted on 12 March 20138 March 2013Author Bouwe BrouwerCategories Issue 13.17 Comments on
bitter wind the smell of honey in the empty hive
Posted on 13 March 20138 March 2013Author Ernest WitCategories Issue 13.16 Comments on
wild strands blown from an empty nest I grow my hair long again
Posted on 14 March 20138 March 2013Author Alison HedlundCategories Issue 13.110 Comments on
November walk — settling for what’s left of the bittersweet       (2nd Place Winner of the 2012 Robert Frost International Poetry Contest)
Posted on 15 March 201313 March 2013Author Stanford M. ForresterCategories Issue 13.15 Comments on
barely longer than a cardinal’s call . . . winter haiku
Posted on 18 March 201323 May 2025Author Margaret DornausCategories Issue 13.117 Comments on
butterfly under her skin the ink takes shape
Posted on 19 March 201315 March 2013Author Polona OblakCategories Issue 13.19 Comments on
spring winds — knowing just how to touch you
Posted on 20 March 201318 March 2013Author Dawn ApaniusCategories Issue 13.120 Comments on
unable to help myself rip tide
Posted on 21 March 201318 March 2013Author Marion ClarkeCategories Issue 13.123 Comments on
day moon– the poem sounded better last night
Posted on 22 March 201320 March 2013Author Stanford M. ForresterCategories Issue 13.117 Comments on
autumn mist as far as roads will reach
Posted on 25 March 201320 March 2013Author Thomas PowellCategories Issue 13.14 Comments on
morning walk — wrapped and unwrapped by the fog
Posted on 26 March 201323 March 2013Author Kashinath KarmakarCategories Issue 13.111 Comments on
at the deep end of the sky prairie  
Posted on 27 March 201323 March 2013Author Chad Lee RobinsonCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
late afternoon each tombstone in its neighbor’s shadow
Posted on 28 March 201323 May 2025Author Jay FriedenbergCategories Issue 13.115 Comments on
the creek where she was baptized sun after rain
Posted on 29 March 201323 March 2013Author Deborah P KolodjiCategories Issue 13.112 Comments on
season opener I wheel my father into the shade
Posted on 1 April 201329 March 2013Author John McManusCategories Issue 13.19 Comments on
baseball in the distance a metronome keeping the slow time of summer
Posted on 2 April 201331 March 2013Author Kaylyssa QuinnCategories Issue 13.15 Comments on
still some swagger in his white linen trousers the summer wind
Posted on 3 April 20132 April 2013Author Lorin FordCategories Issue 13.111 Comments on
no fences . . . the spirit of a wild horse in the gusting wind
Posted on 4 April 20132 April 2013Author Chad Lee RobinsonCategories Issue 13.19 Comments on
old carousel horse a gleam of wildness in the painted eye
Posted on 5 April 20132 April 2013Author Margarita EngleCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
grass blades edged with frost his apology
Posted on 8 April 20132 April 2013Author Susan ConstableCategories Issue 13.116 Comments on
snowflakes all the places she was childless
Posted on 9 April 20132 April 2013Author Polona OblakCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
gathering dark-red roses I trim the thorns cutting off regrets before a petal falls
Posted on 10 April 201310 April 2013Author Jenny Ward AngyalCategories Issue 13.115 Comments on
still life class she pours her heart into the skeleton
Posted on 11 April 20137 April 2013Author Helen BuckinghamCategories Issue 13.17 Comments on
clinging to work clinging to home cicadas
Posted on 12 April 20137 April 2013Author Kate MacQueenCategories Issue 13.16 Comments on
unexpectedly warm I take off my summer jacket feeling as if I were back in Saigon
Posted on 15 April 201311 April 2013Author Nu QuangCategories Issue 13.110 Comments on
ghetto building in every window the rest of the world
Posted on 16 April 201311 April 2013Author S.M. AbelesCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
ghetto building in every window the rest of the world
Posted on 16 April 201316 April 2013Author S.M. AbelesCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
Old men in a park bitching about the world. A little kid beside dances to no music.  
Posted on 17 April 201316 April 2013Author R.K. SameerCategories Issue 13.14 Comments on
city loneliness a sparrow drops into its shadow
Posted on 18 April 201316 April 2013Author Dru PhilippouCategories Issue 13.14 Comments on
in this white hour between deep night and dawn even the wren stares
Posted on 19 April 201316 April 2013Author Joan McNerneyCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
planting delphiniums in dark soil — the taste of rain water
Posted on 22 April 201323 May 2025Author Sandra SimpsonCategories Issue 13.19 Comments on
foot massage the creek gurgles between my toes
Posted on 23 April 201320 April 2013Author Sean CarltonCategories Issue 13.14 Comments on
this April morning even the fly primps and preens
Posted on 24 April 201320 April 2013Author John SavoieCategories Issue 13.15 Comments on
what the crows are doing louder and more important
Posted on 25 April 201320 April 2013Author Kath Abela WilsonCategories Issue 13.15 Comments on
our marriage or what’s left of it . . . fireflies
Posted on 26 April 201320 April 2013Author Laurence StaceyCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
spring blues– the flower notes in my tea
Posted on 29 April 201320 April 2013Author Dawn ApaniusCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
prom night a petal clings to the strawberry
Posted on 30 April 201320 April 2013Author Robert DaveyCategories Issue 13.15 Comments on
moonlight— trying not to analyze the kiss
Posted on 1 May 201323 May 2025Author Claudette RussellCategories Issue 13.18 Comments on
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