older the same stars my parents had     -Gary Hotham https://tinywords.com/2025/11/20/43737/

long day the toddler's nap the length of an eyelash   -Dyana Basist https://tinywords.com/2025/11/19/43750/

swaying grasses the wordless refrain of a lullaby   -Joanne van Helvoort https://tinywords.com/2025/11/18/43625/

slow-moving clouds a painted turtle conceals her roadside nest   -Carly Siegel Thorp https://tinywords.com/2025/11/17/43786/

cold drizzle when did it start this talking to myself -Beverly Acuff Momoi https://tinywords.com/2025/11/14/43987/

detainment cell another game of peek-a-boo -John Pappas https://tinywords.com/2025/11/13/43830/

airplane crossing the sky in the toddler’s eyes   -Matthew Moffett https://tinywords.com/2025/11/12/43785/

childhood friend … we fill in the gaps all afternoon -Madhuri Pillai https://tinywords.com/2025/11/11/43650/

playground within the rolling leaves a hollow -martin gottlieb cohen https://tinywords.com/2025/11/10/43495/

following a cricket into the cairn eventide   -Dyana Basist https://tinywords.com/2025/11/07/43747/

broken walls a blackbird's song braids the wind -Neena Singh https://tinywords.com/2025/11/06/49154/

broken window— seeing the world as it is   -Joanne E. Miller https://tinywords.com/2025/11/05/43719/

political coup the sand dune takes a new shape overnight -Aparna Pathak https://tinywords.com/2025/11/04/43763/

contrails our slow disintegration -John Hawkhead https://tinywords.com/2025/11/03/43708/

lingering spirits Halloween merges with the Day of the Dead   -Christine Wenk-Harrison https://tinywords.com/2025/10/31/44007/

last time through the corn maze . . . All Hallow's Eve   -Sally Biggar https://tinywords.com/2025/10/30/43917/

every day more like a crone the carved pumpkin   -Patricia J. Machmiller https://tinywords.com/2025/10/29/44003/

saving daylight the translucent leaves of October   -Alexa Selph https://tinywords.com/2025/10/27/43561/

dawn chorus starlinging me out of night terrors (haiga by Debbie Strange) https://tinywords.com/2025/10/24/49072/

asteroid belt a good enough reason for clutching one's pearls   -Jean LeBlanc https://tinywords.com/2025/10/23/43967/

cold night on the dunes a book of constellations -Shawn Blair https://tinywords.com/2025/10/22/43931/

high surf before the hurricane . . . plovers huddle in the dunes -Hannah Mahoney https://tinywords.com/2025/10/21/43936/

making do wild ducks dabble in a roadside puddle -Carol Reynolds https://tinywords.com/2025/10/20/43845/

village well the clink-clank of copper pots in chorus   -Lakshmi Iyer https://tinywords.com/2025/10/17/43900/

thunderhead— the crack of bighorn sheep -Dennis Owen Frohlich https://tinywords.com/2025/10/16/43507/

wind-dried beach cobbles the grey seals singing each to each     -Kristen Lindquist https://tinywords.com/2025/10/15/43634/

half-open roses the soloist's bouquet allegro non troppo -Lorraine A Padden https://tinywords.com/2025/10/14/43956/

Back from vacation--- our finicky roses blooming better than ever -Sylvia Forges-Ryan https://tinywords.com/2025/10/13/43916/

night rain the crickets too have stopped to listen -Charles Trumbull https://tinywords.com/2025/10/10/43859/

lily pad a dragonfly's now syncs with mine   -Brad Bennett https://tinywords.com/2025/10/09/43652/

ripples upon ripples water striders in the rain   -Ben Gaa https://tinywords.com/2025/10/08/43938/

quiet pond the dash-dot message of waterlilies   -Cherie Hunter Day https://tinywords.com/2025/10/07/43827/

night swamp all that jazz   -John Shiffer https://tinywords.com/2025/10/06/43690/

starlit pond... a paper boat floats for light years   -Srini https://tinywords.com/2025/10/03/43657/

sleepless above this heat the night sky -martin gottlieb cohen https://tinywords.com/2025/10/02/43842/

a different cool than the Douglas firs redwood shade   -Michael Dylan Welch https://tinywords.com/?p=44010

after the fire ponderosa pines graph the forecast   -Barbara Sabol https://tinywords.com/?p=43844

you and me a log that won’t catch   -Frank Hooven https://tinywords.com/?p=43755

windfall apples all the promises I didn’t keep -Mark Miller https://tinywords.com/?p=43820

garden wealth we force zucchini on everyone   -AJ Johnson https://tinywords.com/?p=43748

the surprise of late love heirloom peaches   -Barbara Feehrer https://tinywords.com/?p=43777

unless it is too late summer roses   -Olivier Schopfer https://tinywords.com/?p=43659

summers end the split-bellied figs fill with wasps   -Sara Winteridge https://tinywords.com/?p=43946

Welcome to tinywords issue 25.2 Welcome to a new issue and congratulations to our three writing prompt winners, Sam Bateman, Dave Bo -The Editors https://tinywords.com/?p=44513

Hello there! This is a friendly reminder that we are accepting submissions only through the end of August. Guidelines and submissions form are here: tinywords.com/submit/

Submissions open for Issue 25.2 – and a new prompt Submissions to TINYWORDS 25.2 are now open AUGUST 1-31, 2025. And we have a new writing prompt.  -The Editors https://tinywords.com/?p=43457

ghost town the red rose bush in full bloom -Joanne Morcom https://tinywords.com/?p=42601

barnacled rock the sea claims its own -Gregory Longenecker https://tinywords.com/?p=42657

the chill in the mannequin’s eyes end of summer sale   -Ernest Wit https://tinywords.com/?p=42673

roaming the boardwalk to the end of summer romance   -Barrie Levine https://tinywords.com/?p=42470