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Category: Issue 25.1

Welcome to tinywords issue 25.1

Welcome to tinywords 25.1, which starts next week. Today, we’re sharing the winners of our winter writing prompt.
Posted on 22 March 202520 March 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 25.115 Comments on Welcome to tinywords issue 25.1
spring equinox a crack splits the frozen river  
Posted on 24 March 202523 March 2025Author Dru PhilippouCategories Issue 25.18 Comments on
river rush trees green into birdsong
Posted on 25 March 202523 March 2025Author Katrina ShepherdCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
the rite of spring piccolos rush the conductor  
Posted on 26 March 202523 March 2025Author Julie SchwerinCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
new regime… daffodils gauge the weight of each snowflake  
Posted on 27 March 202523 March 2025Author Mark TeafordCategories Issue 25.15 Comments on
negotiations another day of snow  
Posted on 28 March 202527 March 2025Author LeRoy GormanCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
left up all winter signs from fall’s election warped
Posted on 31 March 202527 March 2025Author Noel SlobodaCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
newsindigestiblebytes
Posted on 1 April 202523 March 2025Author Sandra SimpsonCategories Issue 25.15 Comments on
dinner date all his attention on the menu  
Posted on 2 April 202527 March 2025Author SriniCategories Issue 25.16 Comments on
wet leaves clinging to my shoes… new resolutions  
Posted on 3 April 202523 March 2025Author Christopher PatchelCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
Whispering Wind   On my early morning walks, I often search for the red-tailed hawk perched in the topmost branch of a cottonwood. From this vantage point, she
Posted on 4 April 202527 March 2025Author Dru PhilippouCategories Issue 25.19 Comments on
a hawk soars over this snowbright mountain —first dream of the year  
Posted on 7 April 202527 March 2025Author Nichael CramerCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
subtle shifts of a swallow-tailed kite twilight jazz
Posted on 8 April 202527 March 2025Author Bill CooperCategories Issue 25.17 Comments on
Gita chanting birds become the ellipsis       (Originally received an Akita International Haiku Award, September 2014, Honourable Mention)
Posted on 9 April 202527 March 2025Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
awakenings the ping of first sap in the bucket  
Posted on 10 April 202527 March 2025Author Marianne PaulCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
seventh heaven a lotus breaks the surface
Posted on 11 April 202527 March 2025Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
the call to prayers — in the din of Diwali a ghee lamp glistens
Posted on 14 April 202513 April 2025Author Monica KakkarCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
zen garden cat prints through the raked sand  
Posted on 15 April 202513 April 2025Author Joseph P WechselbergerCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
dreamworker the dog at the door of childhood  
Posted on 16 April 202513 April 2025Author Beverly Acuff MomoiCategories Issue 25.112 Comments on
grave frost in my cupped hands a robin’s weight  
Posted on 17 April 202513 April 2025Author C.X.TurnerCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
church bells reaching for belief
Posted on 18 April 202518 April 2025Author Ann K. SchwaderCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
the vows I’ve made— moving the hose from tree to tree
Posted on 21 April 202513 April 2025Author Cynthia AndersonCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
grieving a fire I embroider trees my needle a wand raising old growth if only on cloth  
Posted on 22 April 202521 April 2025Author Cynthia BaleCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
redwoods strengthening my password to blue sky
Posted on 23 April 202521 April 2025Author Cherie Hunter DayCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
a half-moon— the things she remembers she soon forgets  
Posted on 24 April 202521 April 2025Author Joanne E. MillerCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
the shape of a life one sparkling wave returns to the sea (haiga)
Posted on 25 April 202522 April 2025Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
multiverse – the thirty-six views of Mount Fuji    
Posted on 28 April 202521 April 2025Author Jay FriedenbergCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
small talk a tongue of fog creeps up the coast   (Originally published online in Ginza Poetry Society Kukai)
Posted on 29 April 202521 April 2025Author Marilyn AshbaughCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
talking politics my line hangs up in the lake bed  
Posted on 30 April 202521 April 2025Author Daniel WhiteCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
the fire in his belly brook trout    
Posted on 1 May 202521 April 2025Author Jeff HoaglandCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
dusk a fluff of cottonwood wends its way to the pond  
Posted on 2 May 202521 April 2025Author J RapCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
Roadside Rationalizing I never have a plan. Like a watermelon at the end of its vine, I find myself where I’m supposed to be. out of gas another shooting star  
Posted on 5 May 202521 April 2025Author Bob LuckyCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
another stranger far from home… lone coyote  
Posted on 6 May 202521 April 2025Author Kim KlughCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
mesa shadows sheltering briefly in the adobe ruins
Posted on 7 May 202521 April 2025Author Jay FriedenbergCategories Issue 25.1Leave a comment on
canyon wren – a concert in the cacti
Posted on 8 May 202521 April 2025Author Richard WestCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
bird nest in the porch light Mother’s Day  
Posted on 9 May 202521 April 2025Author Tim CreminCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
Mother’s Day — in her 50s cookbook handwritten notes
Posted on 12 May 202512 May 2025Author Dan CurtisCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
family tree the twist of a strangler fig  
Posted on 13 May 202512 May 2025Author Richard MattaCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
wing-worn geese … this urge to leave home to find home    
Posted on 14 May 202512 May 2025Author Chen-ou LiuCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
gated complex in the grip of wisteria  
Posted on 15 May 202512 May 2025Author Helen BuckinghamCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
indigo sky one flies over center field (haiga)
Posted on 16 May 202522 April 2025Author Mimi AhernCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga4 Comments on
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