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Maple Keys

14 Jul 20226 Jun 2022
We started off as one… a fluttery spinning satellite. parted in the winds broke away by the seasons.   These maple roots needed a scattering, these sugary visions yearned to…
Seeds

TUFTY’S ACORN TREE

13 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
Tufty has broke her wing, she cannot fly for 2 months. A feather falls off in the soil. She waters the ground with her tears. 2 months later, when she…
Plant Your Words

Submission Opportunity: Plant Your Words

12 Jul 2022
Theme: Plant Your Words! Submission Period: July 15 - September 1, 2022  Tiny Seed Journal will be publishing a "Plant Your Words" inspired Anthology as our next Journal theme. While not…
Seeds

Ginger Maple

12 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
The seed of a tree grows a tree of our nation, the tree of our nation grows the soul of a seed, the key that reflects the flecks of golden…
Seeds

Bridging Birdhouses

11 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
You feed birds, they plant sunflowers— tilling dirt with claws, beaks, the weight of wings, still and in motion. Grass yellows, becomes thick, hairy, prickly with petals and light. The…
Seeds

The Garnet Soul

10 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
  Photograph by Tracey Dean Widelitz   Tracey Dean Widelitz is a published writer, poet and photographer, and is the author of 'A Heavenly World' children's book. Her poetry has…
Seeds

Losing the Gravity of the Situation

9 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
Violets press against my back working together to hold me flat an inch above the true ground. Here stand one million dandelions, one million suns. I can’t matter much at…
Seeds

How to Eat a Pine Tree

8 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
suck it down from the top blending dirt and wind, stir with birds’ breath and feathers shake it like a rain cloud, seeded and skinless, an unoccupied color, bear off…
Seeds

Gifts from the seeds

7 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
  I turn you in my palm, each of you a plant entire curled within tight kernel, like messages in a bottle tumbling through the rapids of uncertain futures. tiny…
Nature

Beauty and the nest

6 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
For weeks, walkers pass the bush and gawk, hibiscus blooms like party plates, candy pink, a swirl of white— exactly what you’d serve a slice of birthday cake on— out…
Seeds

Tiny Bird

5 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
dangling into the chasm of transition into double digits, she begs to graduate from the Junior version of Apples to Apples. I stretch, making space then sort out most proper…
Seeds

Overture to a Seed

4 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
Hello tiny seed, would you do me the favor of growing for me? I know you’ve traveled far to get here in your pretty paper packet. I want you to…
Seeds

Sometimes (a Seed)

3 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
and sometimes like the day I am breaking I am becoming sharp light and the stillness is leaving the quiet is gone   I am unable to find the sleep…
Seeds

Seeds of Womanhood

2 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
Family, friends, teachers planted seeds since birth. Confidence, judgment, self-discipline lay dormant, waited for opportune conditions, time to mature. Conscientiousness, tolerance hid within like buried treasure, awaited discovery. Curiosity, creativity,…
Seeds

Heart in a cottonwood tree

1 Jul 202222 Jun 2022
Bowed planks, soft from the change of seasons, sag in the cleft of the tree. They are forgotten scraps, gathered and assembled with a child’s sense of infinite possibility. Tenderly,…
Seeds

Abundance

30 Jun 202222 Jun 2022
That night, Abundance washed over us. Sorrow Compassion Whisky Anger And love. In the aftermath Scorched earth. Trees, emaciated. Nothing stirred. Soon enough, though Shoots persevered Achingly green. Buzzing returned,…
Seeds

Ode to the Dandelion

29 Jun 202222 Jun 2022
  Poem by Anne Richardson   Anne Richardson is a poet, chaplain, spiritual companion, labyrinth facilitator, and Reiki master and believes everyone’s story is sacred. She finds her poetic voice…
Seeds

Seeds Life

28 Jun 202222 Jun 2022
Seduced by the wind, Stolen on the bird’s wing, Scattered by a sinuous stream, Surrendering to mother’s rich soil, Slumbering serenely in silent time, Scrupulously caressed by sweet sunshine, Soothingly…
Seeds

Solace of the Seed

27 Jun 202222 Jun 2022
Carolina Wren postured on a limb Bursting forth the ancient hymn Calling to buds, blades, and seeds Awake, awake respond to the plead The winter sleep is now ended As…
Seeds

3 Seed Haiku

26 Jun 202222 Jun 2022
SACRED tree stumps made alters gifts left behind, offerings new seedling abloom   UNTITLED SEED HAIKU 1 tiny grass seeds grow thriving among paved sidewalks push through emotions   UNTITLED…
Seeds

Waiting For Spring

25 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
  Photography by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician and sometimes-photographer of the things, mostly little things, around her. Her photos have been seen in previous Tiny Seed publications,…
Seeds

Scorpionweed

24 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
the purple fiddle-head flowers were pretty at first, adorning hairy foliage so we let them be, a weed, we knew, yet somehow ornamental but then the plants turned brown, leaves…
Seeds

Top Down

23 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
If we remove the top predators nature is decapitated and all the seeds fly away. As seeds we can blow anywhere you want to travel. We can even create a…
Seeds

Costa Rica Gestalt

22 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
coatiagouti hummingbirdkite treefrogcroc lianafig raincloudforest If I am able to blossom for fruit bats, I will become seed fallen to earth with potential for further development—a seedling   Poem by…
Seeds

Chain Tree

21 Jun 202219 Jun 2022
Photography by K.L Johnston   K.L. Johnston is a photographer and poet whose images first appeared in 2014 in South Carolina ETV's in-house magazine "Scene". Since then, her photos have…
Seeds

Flower

20 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
The constant friends in joy and sadness have long since scattered after the party or before the tragic news. Are there any you support? If you're asking me I run…
Seeds

Patience is

19 Jun 202214 Jun 2022
Gobbled up, by a bird, No greater function, purpose served. But await, bird alights, Leaving stains, Black and white. In it spy, tiny seed, Now to grow, Purposefully.   Poem…

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2022 Submissions

Plant Your Words – July 15, 2022

 

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Theme: Plant Your Words!
We are so excited for our friends @heidisanderwriter and @jamiemnix to launch their new collection of poetry!
Submissions open Mar 15, 2022
Tiny Seed Journal Anthology Forest
Tiny Seed Journal Fall 2021 Newsletter
Poem ‘You and I’ and drawing ‘Bumblebee’ by tiny seed journal’s featured poet Alicia Hayden, Rain before Rainbows 2020
Apaja’simk - To Return
Featured Poet Alicia Hayden -
Chris La Tray is a Métis writer and storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His next book, Becoming Little Shell, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2022. Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.

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