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/

the market value of my childhood . . . antiques fair -Anna Eklund-Cheong https://tinywords.com/2026/01/08/43964/

My old kaleidoscope -- i look for the boy -vincent tripi https://tinywords.com/2026/01/07/49262/

sap rise the long gleam of the river   -Meredith Ackroyd https://tinywords.com/2026/01/06/43914/

outside my morning window mountains rise into light & shadow this late summer day -Marilyn Hazelton https://tinywords.com/2026/01/05/44001/

she understands the language of frogs summer wind (haiga) -Barbara Kaufmann https://tinywords.com/2026/01/02/49136/

new year’s day turning over a throw rug to hide the stains -Bob Lucky https://tinywords.com/2026/01/01/43693/

shucking oysters the talk turns to our inner lives -Charles Trumbull https://tinywords.com/2025/12/31/49254/

corner pub as much location as anything -Michael Henry Lee https://tinywords.com/2025/12/30/43856/

the year's coldest night a barbershop quartet warms up -Roland Packer https://tinywords.com/2025/12/29/43817/

colder nights . . . the muezzin's call a little late -Taofeek Ayeyemi https://tinywords.com/2025/12/26/43770/

first Christmas instructions not included   -eric sundquist https://tinywords.com/2025/12/25/43794/

Hubble Telescope a closer look at the god particle   -Anne Fox https://tinywords.com/2025/12/24/43731/

dazed elegance at the reunion party star-gazer lilies   -j. zimmerman https://tinywords.com/2025/12/23/43735/

family reunion the grandfather surrounded by strangers -d. f. tweney https://tinywords.com/2025/12/22/43733/

i think of moths, but i mostly think of candles the winter solstice -vincent tripi https://tinywords.com/2025/12/19/49233/

sunrise sediment settles in the teacup   -Michele Root-Bernstein https://tinywords.com/2025/12/18/43996/

jacaranda rain a petal rides her ponytail -Richard Matta https://tinywords.com/2025/12/17/43653/

crescent moon a foal's whisker bends toward milk -Bill Cooper https://tinywords.com/2025/12/16/43513/

winter light saguaros hold the sky -Frank Hooven https://tinywords.com/2025/12/15/49224/

waterfalling the metallic teal peacock’s tail (haiga) -Mimi Ahern https://tinywords.com/2025/12/12/49133/

in spite of all my failures forsythia   -Bryan Rickert https://tinywords.com/2025/12/11/43847/

long workday . . . I sit in the garage till the Zeppelin ends -Michael Dylan Welch https://tinywords.com/2025/12/10/49218/

another morning with dust on the desk tired of meeting a deadline that always returns -Nitu Yumnam https://tinywords.com/2025/12/09/43640/

retirement . . . Monday slips in unnoticed -Carole Macrury https://tinywords.com/2025/12/08/43966/

day of surgery this sudden interest in my lifeline -Kim Klugh https://tinywords.com/2025/12/05/44004/

only child without a child winter moon       (Originally publ -Richa Sharma https://tinywords.com/2025/12/04/43744/

brooding over my dog's death I miss the first nightingale     -Kala Ramesh https://tinywords.com/2025/12/03/43896/

quail call the blind setter frozen on point   -Billie Dee https://tinywords.com/2025/12/02/44008/

skimming the pages of a new field guide call of the flycatcher -Michael Henry Lee https://tinywords.com/2025/12/01/43876/

colour wheel what the hummingbird tastes (haiga - click through to view) -Marianne Paul https://tinywords.com/2025/11/28/49128/

biophony all the ways to say grace -Jeff Hoagland https://tinywords.com/2025/11/27/43972/

lights of a farm letting the horse choose its own path   -Randy Brooks https://tinywords.com/2025/11/26/43604/

steel sky the sudden splash of a carp -Stephen C. Curro https://tinywords.com/2025/11/25/43814/

a bubbly effervescence in her voice the stream after rain -Adelaide B. Shaw https://tinywords.com/2025/11/24/43559/

another road trip in me autumn wind -Barrie Levine https://tinywords.com/2025/11/21/43887/

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/