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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 25.12 Comments 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 25.17 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 25.14 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 25.13 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 25.14 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 25.15 Comments on
gated complex in the grip of wisteria  
Posted on 15 May 202512 May 2025Author Helen BuckinghamCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
indigo sky one flies over center field (haiga)
Posted on 16 May 202522 April 2025Author Mimi AhernCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
moment of silence— dry ice fog drifting to the end zone  
Posted on 19 May 202512 May 2025Author Michael Dylan WelchCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
valley mist the things I might have been    
Posted on 20 May 202512 May 2025Author Gavin AustinCategories Issue 25.1Leave a comment on
garage sale a rusty coffee can full of pennies old vinyls the wobble   (The above is a tan renga written by Billie Dee, San Miguel, New Mexico, USA and Richard L.
Posted on 21 May 202512 May 2025Author Billie DeeCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
spring wind a wheelchair sways to Zumba beats  
Posted on 22 May 202512 May 2025Author SanjuktaaCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
farmers’ market the crisp snap of a paper sack
Posted on 23 May 202512 May 2025Author Laurie GreerCategories Issue 25.17 Comments on
cricket sounds his story loops back to the start
Posted on 26 May 202512 May 2025Author Daniel WhiteCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
The Photo I Didn’t Take It’s misting heavily, and two city workers, street sweepers, are smoking beneath a ledge. Above them, pigeons huddle and sink their heads into
Posted on 27 May 202512 May 2025Author Bob LuckyCategories Issue 25.15 Comments on
nyc so many ppl idk    
Posted on 28 May 202512 May 2025Author Patricia McKernon RunkleCategories Issue 25.15 Comments on
starlight the right of asylum  
Posted on 29 May 202512 May 2025Author Elmedin KadricCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
refugee train small hands starfished against the glass (haiga)
Posted on 30 May 202522 April 2025Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga21 Comments on
winter clouds— the torn teddy bear of a homeless child  
Posted on 2 June 202531 May 2025Author Hifsa AshrafCategories Issue 25.110 Comments on
the long crack in the prison wall winter twilight  
Posted on 3 June 202531 May 2025Author Alvin B. CruzCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
shortcut a train ticket in a crow’s beak  
Posted on 4 June 202531 May 2025Author Robert WitmerCategories Issue 25.1Leave a comment on
caws becoming specks becoming crows
Posted on 5 June 202531 May 2025Author Brad BennettCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
the child that never came to be… face in a cloud       (Originally published in Blithe Spirit, Volume 34 / 3)
Posted on 6 June 202531 May 2025Author Adrian BouterCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
earthworms at the doorstep winter rain  
Posted on 9 June 202531 May 2025Author Frank HoovenCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
winter grazing the hoof prints of cattle gone to slaughter  
Posted on 10 June 202531 May 2025Author Julie MellorCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
polar vortex an anchor of ice steadies the lake
Posted on 11 June 202531 May 2025Author Cherie Hunter DayCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
wedding anniversary gold larches in the rain  
Posted on 12 June 202531 May 2025Author Richard TiceCategories Issue 25.15 Comments on
bus stop twilight … I inhale every puff of a stranger’s cigarette, the favorite brand of my deceased father
Posted on 13 June 202531 May 2025Author Chen-ou LiuCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
a cocoon stirs graduation day
Posted on 16 June 202515 June 2025Author Ajay JyotiCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
lake shimmer a jetty stretches towards dawn
Posted on 17 June 202515 June 2025Author Marion ClarkeCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
heat lightning cease fire on the horizon  
Posted on 18 June 202515 June 2025Author Ron ScullyCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
fence line – the weeds stand their ground  
Posted on 19 June 202515 June 2025Author Cheong Lee SanCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
summer dew the spider’s focus on home (haiga)
Posted on 20 June 202522 April 2025Author Cherie Hunter DayCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
golden anniversary the chipped coffee cups she pours into  
Posted on 23 June 2025Author Elisa TherianaCategories Issue 25.13 Comments on
so long since our last kiss . . . puckered blueberries  
Posted on 24 June 202524 June 2025Author Ann SullivanCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
origami a heron’s neck folded in sleep  
Posted on 25 June 202524 June 2025Author Barbara FeehrerCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
summer morning the lightness of white linen  
Posted on 26 June 202524 June 2025Author Olivier SchopferCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
a day of knitting loose ends together brain fog (haiga)
Posted on 27 June 202522 April 2025Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga2 Comments on
two weeks since losing the baby withering heat
Posted on 30 June 202524 June 2025Author Rowan Beckett MinorCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
Summer afternoon a Bach sonata cools the air  
Posted on 1 July 202524 June 2025Author Sylvia Forges-RyanCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
inlet sunset fog tendrils trailing the last lobster boat
Posted on 2 July 202524 June 2025Author Carly Siegel ThorpCategories Issue 25.15 Comments on
independence day a sweep of egrets over the twilit lake  
Posted on 4 July 202524 June 2025Author Kathryn P. HaydonCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
three beach chairs empty, but for one first star  
Posted on 7 July 202524 June 2025Author Patricia J. MachmillerCategories Issue 25.1Leave a comment on
gathering calls of oystercatchers the wind
Posted on 8 July 202524 June 2025Author Katrina ShepherdCategories Issue 25.11 Comment on
neon puddles the whoosh of traffic on a summer night
Posted on 9 July 202524 June 2025Author Robert WitmerCategories Issue 25.1Leave a comment on
beach resort hotel the gift shop price of a sand dollar  
Posted on 10 July 202524 June 2025Author Sam BatemanCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
roaming the boardwalk to the end of summer romance  
Posted on 11 July 202524 June 2025Author Barrie LevineCategories Issue 25.14 Comments on
the chill in the mannequin’s eyes end of summer sale  
Posted on 14 July 202524 June 2025Author Ernest WitCategories Issue 25.1Leave a comment on
barnacled rock the sea claims its own
Posted on 15 July 20258 July 2025Author Gregory LongeneckerCategories Issue 25.1Leave a comment on
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