Saturday night the same war on every channel -Alexa Selph https://tinywords.com/2026/05/22/49719/

wind phone the mot juste of my grief -Shloka Shankar Haiga with photo by John Levy: https://tinywords.com/2026/05/21/50241/

creek song a rainbow thrashing against sky sculling the undercurrent of conversation   (Tan renga written by Billie D -Lorraine A Padden https://tinywords.com/2026/05/20/49726/

blue sky & then there’s the blues   -LeRoy Gorman https://tinywords.com/2026/05/19/49653/

bluebells… the adagio of a honeybee -Ed Bremson https://tinywords.com/2026/05/18/49315/

jazz fest the morning after bass of a bullfrog -Deb Koen https://tinywords.com/2026/05/15/49406/

calm day the still wind chimes play a bit of Cage -Rehn Kovacic https://tinywords.com/2026/05/14/49316/

fading light . . . she takes off her bangles to play the guitar     (Originally appeared in Frogpond 48.2) -Richa Sharma https://tinywords.com/2026/05/13/49542/

funeral hymn time and again the same wave resurfacing -Julie Mellor https://tinywords.com/2026/05/12/50108/

no end to this grief. . . reheated tea   -Rowan Beckett Minor https://tinywords.com/2026/05/11/49732/

spring rain hearing my mother's voice in the names of flowers   -Julie Mellor https://tinywords.com/2026/05/08/49545/

gone from us… a last bloom on her heirloom rose   -Kathryn Liebowitz https://tinywords.com/2026/05/07/49516/

morning blush the sunset flames in the rosebuds -Zoran Doderovic https://tinywords.com/2026/05/06/49633/

between leaf and sun the damselfly's electric blue   -Katrina Shepherd https://tinywords.com/2026/05/05/49576/

having seen enough already mayfly   -Michael Henry Lee https://tinywords.com/2026/05/04/49350/

tulip petals open to suggestions (haiga) -Mimi Ahern https://tinywords.com/2026/05/01/50091/

above all the beneathness earthworms -Jeff Hoagland https://tinywords.com/2026/04/30/49522/

clear down to its stony bottom Adirondack lake   -dl mattila https://tinywords.com/2026/04/29/49606/

small town waitress the slight sadness behind her smile   -Jay Friedenberg https://tinywords.com/2026/04/28/49561/

a porcine squeal from the microwave breakfast sausage   -Charles Trumbull https://tinywords.com/2026/04/27/49686/

canyon crow answering itself   -Bryan Rickert https://tinywords.com/2026/04/24/49493/

starling speckles . . . I find the stardust within me -Nicholas Klacsanzky https://tinywords.com/2026/04/23/49323/

smoke stars fading to fire -Marilyn Ashbaugh https://tinywords.com/2026/04/22/49500/

painting his despair the red of a siren -Gavin Austin https://tinywords.com/2026/04/21/49372/

adopted language finding a new family of gods   -Anne Fox https://tinywords.com/2026/04/20/49451/

faraway shores my lucky coin for the ferryman -Joanne van Helvoort https://tinywords.com/2026/04/17/49673/

plans forgotten old penny jar -Barbara Feehrer https://tinywords.com/2026/04/16/49456/

mizzling rain the slow accumulation of tax forms   -Beverly Acuff Momoi https://tinywords.com/2026/04/15/49582/

there’s a certain marsh you know the one if I could return just once I would dream in colour again -Chuck Brickley tinywords.com/2026/04/13/4... (we are reposting because this poem was accidentally truncated yesterday when we posted it here)

sepia streetscape out of the blue a Jacaranda -Carol Reynolds https://tinywords.com/2026/04/14/49448/

there’s a certain marsh you know the one if I could return just once I would dream in -Chuck Brickley https://tinywords.com/2026/04/13/49625/

minor revisions to the text spring wind (haiga) -Cherie Hunter Day https://tinywords.com/2026/04/10/50013/

old hands my shared ancestry with a leaf -Gregory Longenecker https://tinywords.com/2026/04/09/49520/

old age daylight we can’t keep in the room     -Gary Hotham https://tinywords.com/2026/04/08/49511/

fading beneath the fading cherry blossoms cherry blossom viewers   -Don Wentworth https://tinywords.com/2026/04/07/49590/

sunny spell the intoxicating scent of hyacinths   -Olivier Schopfer https://tinywords.com/2026/04/06/49403/

meditation retreat… my day measured in breaths   -Dan Curtis https://tinywords.com/2026/04/03/49573/

Taking the only thing she could to her grave family secrets   -Sylvia Forges-Ryan https://tinywords.com/2026/04/02/49701/

finding her name in a word search spring snow   -John Pappas https://tinywords.com/2026/04/01/49409/

nearing spring a little nest of a heart   -Elmedin Kadric https://tinywords.com/2026/03/31/49419/

mild spell - an exit hole in the molehill -David Gale https://tinywords.com/2026/03/30/49508/

river of mist a breath between mountains -Thomas Festa https://tinywords.com/2026/03/27/49317/

first crocus ice breaking the Susquehanna   -Joshua St. Claire https://tinywords.com/2026/03/26/49379/

crossing into spring northside ice at the bridge   -Sherry Weaver Smith https://tinywords.com/2026/03/25/49463/

winter thaw a stream broadens my perspective -Kirk Lawson https://tinywords.com/2026/03/24/49509/

longer days... leaving winter behind a glove at a time -Laurie Greer https://tinywords.com/2026/03/23/49384/

Welcome to TINYWORDS 26.1, and congratulations to the two winners of our photo prompt contest. Our new issue starts on Monday. https://tinywords.com/2026/03/21/welcome-to-tinywords-issue-26-1/

Dear readers and writers, tinywords is accepting submissions for issue 26.2 at this page: tinywords.com/submit/ We look forward to reading your tiny poems! Deadline: February 28

tinywords 25.2 is now complete, and there will be a pause while we prepare the next issue. In the meantime, please enjoy our photo prompt. https://tinywords.com/2026/01/19/submissions-for-issue-26-1-and-a-new-prompt/

lone walk... a street dog's bark for company -Nivedita N https://tinywords.com/2026/01/09/43854/