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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 15h

ripples upon ripples
water striders
in the rain

-Ben Gaa
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/08/43938/

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 1d

quiet pond
the dash-dot message
of waterlilies

-Cherie Hunter Day
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/07/43827/

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 2d

night swamp
all that
jazz

-John Shiffer
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/06/43690/

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 5d

starlit pond...
a paper boat floats
for light years

-Srini
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/03/43657/

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 6d

sleepless
above this heat
the night sky

-martin gottlieb cohen
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/02/43842/

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 7d

a different cool
than the Douglas firs
redwood shade

-Michael Dylan Welch
https://tinywords.com/?p=44010

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 8d

after the fire
ponderosa pines
graph the forecast

-Barbara Sabol
https://tinywords.com/?p=43844

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 9d

you and me
a log
that won’t catch

-Frank Hooven
https://tinywords.com/?p=43755

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 12d

windfall apples
all the promises
I didn’t keep

-Mark Miller
https://tinywords.com/?p=43820

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 13d

garden wealth
we force zucchini
on everyone

-AJ Johnson
https://tinywords.com/?p=43748

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 14d

the surprise
of late love
heirloom peaches

-Barbara Feehrer
https://tinywords.com/?p=43777

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 15d

unless
it is too late
summer roses

-Olivier Schopfer
https://tinywords.com/?p=43659

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 16d

summers end
the split-bellied figs
fill with wasps

-Sara Winteridge
https://tinywords.com/?p=43946

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 18d

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

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Aug 25

You may also want to contribute a response to our photo prompt here: tinywords.com/2025/07/31/s...

We've had some problems with comment moderation, so please accept our apologies if your comment didn't appear for a few days.

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.

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Aug 25

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/

Submit

We invite you to contribute/submit to the next issue of tinywords, 25.2. Please send your best, preferably unpublished work. We’re looking for haiku, tanka and other tiny poems, brief tanka p…

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 31

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

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 16

ghost town
the red rose bush
in full bloom

-Joanne Morcom
https://tinywords.com/?p=42601

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 15

barnacled rock
the sea claims
its own

-Gregory Longenecker
https://tinywords.com/?p=42657

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 14

the chill
in the mannequin’s eyes
end of summer sale

-Ernest Wit
https://tinywords.com/?p=42673

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 11

roaming the boardwalk to the end of summer romance

-Barrie Levine
https://tinywords.com/?p=42470

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 10

beach resort hotel
the gift shop price
of a sand dollar

-Sam Bateman
https://tinywords.com/?p=42702

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 9

neon puddles
the whoosh of traffic
on a summer night

-Robert Witmer
https://tinywords.com/?p=43426

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 8

gathering
calls of oystercatchers
the wind

-Katrina Shepherd
https://tinywords.com/?p=43423

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · Jul 7

three beach chairs
empty, but for one
first star

-Patricia J. Machmiller
https://tinywords.com/?p=42632

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