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Category: Issue 22.2

Welcome to tinywords 22.2

As the seasons change once again around this blue planet it is again a privilege for us here at TINYWORDS to present many voices from around the globe. Welcome to issue
Posted on 19 September 202216 September 2022Author The EditorsCategories Issue 22.210 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 22.2
late-summer tidepool . . . rockweed sways with the in-and-out of waves
Posted on 20 September 202216 September 2022Author Hannah MahoneyCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
summer dusk hands scented with tomato vine  
Posted on 21 September 202216 September 2022Author Ryland Shengzhi LiCategories Issue 22.29 Comments on
overthinking autumn equinox
Posted on 22 September 202216 September 2022Author M AhernCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
summer’s end a book returned by a friend
Posted on 23 September 202216 September 2022Author Daniela MissoCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
summer blues wisteria high in the branches of a dying tree    
Posted on 26 September 202225 September 2022Author Bob LuckyCategories Issue 22.26 Comments on
Still faces it the sunflower withered by the sun
Posted on 27 September 202225 September 2022Author vincent tripiCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
lone sunflower in the zinnia patch… the struggle to belong
Posted on 28 September 202225 September 2022Author Kim KlughCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
expatriate her adopted tongue’s word for home
Posted on 29 September 202225 September 2022Author Alexander B. JoyCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
the ups and downs of a September day goldfinches (haiga)
Posted on 30 September 202216 September 2022Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga5 Comments on
words in a jar— another try at forgiveness
Posted on 3 October 202225 September 2022Author Kathryn LiebowitzCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
letting the tea steep the questions we don’t ask
Posted on 4 October 202225 September 2022Author Valorie Broadhurst WoerdehoffCategories Issue 22.28 Comments on
river stones taking the path of least resistance
Posted on 5 October 202225 September 2022Author Beverly Acuff MomoiCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
sinking in with each step forward pickerel weed
Posted on 6 October 202225 September 2022Author Mark ForresterCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
fox tracks a new path to the creek
Posted on 7 October 202225 September 2022Author Joseph P WechselbergerCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
wood ducks their calls chase them upstream
Posted on 10 October 202210 October 2022Author Jeff HoaglandCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
deepening drought . . . dinosaur tracks rise out of the river
Posted on 11 October 202210 October 2022Author Sam BatemanCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
dragonfly wings a map of water
Posted on 12 October 202210 October 2022Author Dustin Marley HackfeldCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
notes trickle down a riverbed of sand … the memory of water             (Originally appeared in the 5th edition of the Santoka
Posted on 13 October 202212 October 2022Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 22.29 Comments on
Flashpoint 572   In early May he assisted with logistics and media on one of the big forest fires burning in northern New Mexico. This was my son’s first battlefield
Posted on 14 October 202212 October 2022Author Don MillerCategories Issue 22.210 Comments on
getting straight to the point cactus splinters  
Posted on 17 October 202215 October 2022Author Rich SchillingCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
a slug hole in the mushroom cap first raindrops
Posted on 18 October 202217 October 2022Author Brad BennettCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
drumming the earth awake first rain  
Posted on 19 October 202218 October 2022Author Mike FainzilberCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
storm clouds the marching band picks up speed
Posted on 20 October 202218 October 2022Author Joanne MorcomCategories Issue 22.25 Comments on
desert rainstorm a flood of wildflowers
Posted on 21 October 202218 October 2022Author fiona.h.evansCategories Issue 22.26 Comments on
wildflower meadow the names you’re not here to tell me
Posted on 24 October 202218 October 2022Author Bob RedmondCategories Issue 22.27 Comments on
Twilight the autumn hills give up their colors
Posted on 26 October 2022Author Sylvia Forges-RyanCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
cycling with the brakes half on… autumn sunset
Posted on 26 October 202226 October 2022Author Nick TCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
letting go of what’s not mine prairie wind  
Posted on 27 October 202224 October 2022Author Hifsa AshrafCategories Issue 22.210 Comments on
dead hollyhocks nodding in the wind all hallows’ eve  
Posted on 28 October 202224 October 2022Author eric sundquistCategories Issue 22.25 Comments on
someone stirs in the darkened house… All Hallows’ Eve
Posted on 31 October 202224 October 2022Author Roland PackerCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
a pair of odd socks folded into each other – month of remembrance  
Posted on 1 November 202224 October 2022Author Maeve O'SullivanCategories Issue 22.25 Comments on
sixty years on the bulge in a knuckle grazed by a fastball
Posted on 2 November 202224 October 2022Author Bill CooperCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
stars over the fairgrounds I guess the number of jellybeans  
Posted on 3 November 202224 October 2022Author Ash EvanCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
stars at every turn ferris wheel  
Posted on 4 November 202224 October 2022Author Dan CurtisCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
forming my opinion daymoon
Posted on 7 November 202224 October 2022Author Elisa TherianaCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
riptide / we won’t go back (haiga/formatted haiku)
Posted on 8 November 20226 November 2022Author Julie SchwerinCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga8 Comments on
redlight… greenlight… sandpipers on the beach  
Posted on 9 November 20228 November 2022Author C. JeanCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
seismic          shift a world         a war within    and    without           (last one previously published in Femku Mag, Issue 33,
Posted on 10 November 20228 November 2022Author Tracy DavidsonCategories Issue 22.2Leave a comment on
along the ramparts of the ruined fort wild parsnip
Posted on 11 November 20228 November 2022Author Jay FriedenbergCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
sunflowers in the ruins a child’s voice  
Posted on 14 November 20228 November 2022Author Ann K. SchwaderCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
seedpod rattle missing the daughter I never had  
Posted on 15 November 20228 November 2022Author Barbara SabolCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
sunshower answers to questions I never asked
Posted on 16 November 20228 November 2022Author Tazeen FatmaCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
a blue vase of white dahlias floating clouds
Posted on 17 November 20228 November 2022Author Dian Duchin ReedCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
the music of the spheres in my dreams I know the words (haiga)
Posted on 19 November 2022Author Marianne PaulCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
mid-autumn the carelessness of leaves
Posted on 22 November 2022Author Gregory LongeneckerCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
thinner day by day autumn woods
Posted on 22 November 202222 November 2022Author Kathryn J. StevensCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
family reunion a buffet of personalities    
Posted on 24 November 2022Author Claudette RussellCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
canyon switchback each autumn narrows the trail
Posted on 25 November 202225 November 2022Author Marcie WesselsCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
high table a parliament of crows breaking bread           (originally published in Blithe Spirit 32.1, 2022)  
Posted on 26 November 202225 November 2022Author Helen BuckinghamCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
November sky another word for blue  
Posted on 28 November 202225 November 2022Author Tony WilliamsCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
slipping the hook to swim free deep water day
Posted on 29 November 202225 November 2022Author Betsy HearneCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
bluegill at a mayfly hatch ring after ring reaches the shore  
Posted on 30 November 202225 November 2022Author Richard TiceCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
surface ripples the songs my mother knew by heart  
Posted on 1 December 202225 November 2022Author Julie MellorCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
late autumn the old piano covered with photographs
Posted on 2 December 202225 November 2022Author Olivier SchopferCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
garbage night I lift the lid on my neighbor’s secrets  
Posted on 5 December 20222 December 2022Author Mark MillerCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
no mail today— the postman returns the trash can to the widow’s garage  
Posted on 6 December 20222 December 2022Author Susanna RichCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
snow-capped mountain she chose a cloistered life  
Posted on 7 December 20222 December 2022Author Patricia J. MachmillerCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
open black casket the snap of her kiss lock coin purse  
Posted on 8 December 20222 December 2022Author Mike WhiteCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
winter trees only the sound of a crow       (Originally published in EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, 2018)
Posted on 9 December 202212 December 2022Author martin gottlieb cohenCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
garden party an evening breeze combs the willow  
Posted on 12 December 20222 December 2022Author Sondra J. ByrnesCategories Issue 22.25 Comments on
wildflower honey the blackberry underside of a cloud  
Posted on 13 December 20222 December 2022Author Meredith AckroydCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
she walks out of the shadow he casts… a pea tendril coils upward
Posted on 14 December 20222 December 2022Author Marilyn GehantCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
anniversary dinner taking stock of restaurant peas
Posted on 15 December 20222 December 2022Author Elizabeth McMunn-TetangcoCategories Issue 22.2Leave a comment on
Mining for gold at dawn kalinga sagar (haiga)
Posted on 16 December 202220 November 2022Author Chidambar NavalgundCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
may i be so graceful the flight of a swallow  
Posted on 19 December 20224 December 2022Author Bruce H. FeingoldCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
end of autumn- i leave the flower shop with a grasshopper  
Posted on 20 December 20224 December 2022Author Deborah A. BennettCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
the road trip not as planned – thistle fluff  
Posted on 21 December 20224 December 2022Author Bouwe BrouwerCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
deep river the places that call us home (haiga)
Posted on 22 December 202219 November 2022Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
spiral galaxy the whorl of a thumbprint
Posted on 23 December 20224 December 2022Author Cynthia AndersonCategories Issue 22.27 Comments on
guitar lessons my youth an improvisation  
Posted on 26 December 20224 December 2022Author Elena MalecCategories Issue 22.26 Comments on
only child — born in the landscape of let’s pretend  
Posted on 27 December 20224 December 2022Author Roberta BearyCategories Issue 22.27 Comments on
bruised peach and her nana’s rabbit foot— the child’s see-through backpack  
Posted on 28 December 202212 December 2022Author Richard JordanCategories Issue 22.25 Comments on
popping up behind the book cat ears  
Posted on 29 December 202212 December 2022Author Ben GaaCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
my blue bathrobe worn at the hook spot — New Year’s Day
Posted on 30 December 202212 December 2022Author Michael Dylan WelchCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
The front door wide open a shooting star
Posted on 2 January 202312 December 2022Author vincent tripiCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
more war news the slow bleed of hibiscus tea         (Originally published in Mariposa #34, Spring 2016).  
Posted on 3 January 202313 December 2022Author Lesley Anne SwansonCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
headstone inscription the vocabulary beyond her years
Posted on 4 January 202313 December 2022Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
drowning out the war news — spring peepers  
Posted on 5 January 202313 December 2022Author Sheila SondikCategories Issue 22.27 Comments on
cultural evolution the shifting patterns of whale song  
Posted on 6 January 202313 December 2022Author G.R. LeBlancCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
Sunday morning by the sea how reverently we eat ice cream  
Posted on 9 January 202313 December 2022Author Meg ArnotCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
beach volleyball the moon in play  
Posted on 10 January 202313 December 2022Author Barrie LevineCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
distant laughter . . . lights of an anchored ship
Posted on 11 January 202313 December 2022Author M. Shayne BellCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
a hot date the gentle creaking of moored boats       (Originally published in Frogpond vol. 43:3 (fall) 2020).
Posted on 12 January 202313 December 2022Author Marta ChocilowskaCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
true blue the bower bird’s allure
Posted on 13 January 202313 December 2022Author Lorin FordCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
winter camping the dark matter that hums to us  
Posted on 16 January 202313 December 2022Author j. zimmermanCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
breakup talk — our breath mingling in the winter air
Posted on 17 January 202313 December 2022Author Michael Dylan WelchCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
fern spores the ellipsis after your goodbye (haiga)
Posted on 18 January 202319 November 2022Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
new moon a higher standard of solitude       (Originally published in Frogpond 44:3 Autumn 2021).  
Posted on 19 January 202313 December 2022Author Elmedin KadricCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
launch called between clouds glimpses of the moon  
Posted on 20 January 202313 December 2022Author LeRoy GormanCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
all the time in the world aspen grove  
Posted on 23 January 202313 December 2022Author Marietta McGregorCategories Issue 22.25 Comments on
Milky Way the cigarette shorter than the ash  
Posted on 24 January 202313 December 2022Author Frank HoovenCategories Issue 22.22 Comments on
hanging over us an icicle the length of March
Posted on 25 January 202313 December 2022Author Kristen LindquistCategories Issue 22.24 Comments on
spring burial light around the edges of the clouds  
Posted on 26 January 202313 December 2022Author Jennifer HambrickCategories Issue 22.23 Comments on
telescope images the birth of stars already gone  
Posted on 27 January 202313 December 2022Author Kerry J. HeckmanCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
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