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

beach resort hotel the gift shop price of a sand dollar   -Sam Bateman https://tinywords.com/?p=42702

neon puddles the whoosh of traffic on a summer night -Robert Witmer https://tinywords.com/?p=43426

gathering calls of oystercatchers the wind -Katrina Shepherd https://tinywords.com/?p=43423

three beach chairs empty, but for one first star   -Patricia J. Machmiller https://tinywords.com/?p=42632

independence day a sweep of egrets over the twilit lake   -Kathryn P. Haydon https://tinywords.com/?p=42647

inlet sunset fog tendrils trailing the last lobster boat -Carly Siegel Thorp https://tinywords.com/?p=42564

Summer afternoon a Bach sonata cools the air   -Sylvia Forges-Ryan https://tinywords.com/?p=42318

two weeks since losing the baby withering heat -Rowan Beckett Minor https://tinywords.com/?p=42749

a day of knitting loose ends together brain fog (haiga) -Barbara Kaufmann https://tinywords.com/?p=43162

summer morning the lightness of white linen   -Olivier Schopfer https://tinywords.com/?p=42447

origami a heron’s neck folded in sleep   -Barbara Feehrer https://tinywords.com/?p=42624

so long since our last kiss . . . puckered blueberries   -Ann Sullivan https://tinywords.com/?p=42695

golden anniversary the chipped coffee cups she pours into   -Elisa Theriana https://tinywords.com/?p=42435

summer dew the spider’s focus on home (haiga) -Cherie Hunter Day https://tinywords.com/?p=43160

fence line - the weeds stand their ground   -Cheong Lee San https://tinywords.com/?p=42745

heat lightning cease fire on the horizon   -Ron Scully https://tinywords.com/?p=42841

lake shimmer a jetty stretches towards dawn -Marion Clarke https://tinywords.com/?p=42691

a cocoon stirs graduation day -Ajay Jyoti https://tinywords.com/?p=42727

bus stop twilight ... I inhale every puff of a stranger's cigarette, the favorite brand of my de -Chen-ou Liu https://tinywords.com/?p=43391

wedding anniversary gold larches in the rain   -Richard Tice https://tinywords.com/?p=42979

polar vortex an anchor of ice steadies the lake -Cherie Hunter Day https://tinywords.com/?p=43385

winter grazing the hoof prints of cattle gone to slaughter   -Julie Mellor https://tinywords.com/?p=42740

earthworms at the doorstep winter rain   -Frank Hooven https://tinywords.com/?p=42661

the child that never came to be... face in a cloud       (Originally pu -Adrian Bouter https://tinywords.com/?p=42482

caws becoming specks becoming crows -Brad Bennett https://tinywords.com/?p=42566

shortcut a train ticket in a crow's beak   -Robert Witmer https://tinywords.com/?p=42572

the long crack in the prison wall winter twilight   -Alvin B. Cruz https://tinywords.com/?p=42328

winter clouds— the torn teddy bear of a homeless child   -Hifsa Ashraf https://tinywords.com/?p=42687

refugee train small hands starfished against the glass (haiga) -Debbie Strange https://tinywords.com/?p=43158

nyc so many ppl idk     -Patricia McKernon Runkle https://tinywords.com/?p=42757

The Photo I Didn’t Take It’s misting heavily, and two city workers, street sweepers, are smoking -Bob Lucky https://tinywords.com/?p=43326

cricket sounds his story loops back to the start -Daniel White https://tinywords.com/?p=43323

spring wind a wheelchair sways to Zumba beats   -Sanjuktaa https://tinywords.com/?p=42919