Tiny Seed Literary Journal – nature-inspired poetry, prose, photography and art

Literary Owl Nature Writer

By the Seaside By Literary Owl Nature Writer – Eidan Miana

22 Mar 202320 Mar 2023

Would you like to visit the seaside? Where the sun kisses the sea The melody of the waves harmonize With wild calls on the shore Would you like to see…

Constancy by Featured poet Alice B Fogel

21 Mar 20234 Mar 2023

(from “Natural Causes”—topical science-based poems in progress) The most important place on earth runs as deep as the Teton mountains are high, as broad as the distance from London to…

The North Pole by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

7 Mar 20234 Mar 2023

(from “Natural Causes”—topical science-based poems in progress) “The North Pole is not where it used to be.”—Lawrence Ferlinghetti Even the air could lift off, go back to where it came…

Literary Owl Nature Writer

Chilling Wind by Eidan Miana

21 Feb 202320 Feb 2023

Trees rocked in the wind Swaying back and forth to nature’s tempo Chirps of birds frantically poured Winter air crashed upon my face Harsh glacial gusts hammer Humbling each and…

Extinction by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

20 Feb 20239 Mar 2023

(from “Natural Causes”—topical science-based poems in progress) A rainforest is thick as thieves with the hidden.More visible than motion is the weightof time that hangs in the moss, the web…

Summiting in the Rain by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

5 Feb 20239 Mar 2023

(from poems on the Appalachian Trail) Water is the great reshaper— but I know you know that. In this deluge I am weathering like a mountain, but not like a…

Nature

Our 4 Year Anniversary

2 Feb 202311 Feb 2023

Four years ago today, Tiny Seed Literary Journal was created… a seed was planted, and a tiny dream was given roots… with a vision to create an online journal for lovers…

Literary Owl Nature Writer

A Hidden Sanctuary by Eidan Miana

22 Jan 202311 Feb 2023

Quiet branches crack and crumble as I gently venture Verdant arms embrace me, swaying me into its trance The calm hum of life fills the air Rich and playful, the…

All For What by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

21 Jan 20239 Mar 2023

At last at the timeless summit where it seems possible to behold all enormities—windblown distances, skybound heights—I see this lit and stunning, gem-bright fly. It is a lone piece of…

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The Turning by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

6 Jan 20239 Mar 2023

(from poems on the Appalachian Trail) Even while the spruce grows held upright between gravity and heaven it twirls upon its axis, a core that changes year by year, though…

Nature

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

28 Dec 202227 Dec 2022

Theme: Wildflowers POETRY Wildflowers are flowers that grow freely in the wild. Wildflowers grow in forests, fields, parks, and unusual places like floating bogs and sidewalk cracks. If a wildflower…

Shadow by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

23 Dec 20229 Mar 2023

(from poems on the Appalachian Trail) If there is some divine shadow flung over every worldly thing, that could be a reason for rhyming cirrus with feathers, wind with wings,…

Nature

The Melody of Winter by Eidan Miana

21 Dec 202223 Jan 2023

The symphony of the city screams out of tune, unpleasant and erratic. The ruckus of piercing horns, hissing bells, and chaotic conversations pound my ears relentlessly. Screens harass my eyes…

Nature

In a concrete abyss

20 Dec 202216 Dec 2022

The sounds of crickets echoed, the warm summer flew away in a whirlwind, the whistling of a burning core rushes into the house where the little princess is sleeping. There…

Nature

Dances with Camphor

18 Dec 202216 Dec 2022

When spring arrives in Florida, no one safely traverses our back patio. Our camphor tree cinnamomum camphora, which provides plenteous shade from Florida’s searing summer wrath, nevertheless, turns on us.…

Nature

Into The Countryside

17 Dec 202216 Dec 2022

I see trees and they look menacing, like witch fingers,I see birds in the sky and they fly where they wish,I see clouds, they shape into whatever concept upon my…

Plant Your Words

Natural Law (Fig Leaf)

16 Dec 202211 Dec 2022

Emulated from a sweet tooth long ago The fig leaf is a prudent prophetic piece of the past A transcendental transitory Mitigating the pressures between our psyches This boiling bowl…

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Plant Your Words

15 Dec 202211 Dec 2022

Plant your words here on this page,on your lipsin the garden of your mind where thoughts blossomgrow in the dappled shadows,the moist earth of tomorrow. Seed life…

Plant Your Words

Mono No Aware

14 Dec 20229 Dec 2022

Photograph by Talitha May Attuned to the sensory richness of the everyday, my photography invites exploring folds, textures, light and shadow. Talitha May is a researcher and artist who lives…

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Rise Up Geranium Word-Gems (Pelargoniums)

13 Dec 202211 Feb 2023

My geraniums cry outfor water to quench their thirstlike my words waitin the sanctuary of my mind,ready to sprout on the blank page,once a pinch of the pencilor a snip…

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Choice of Tree

12 Dec 202227 Nov 2022

She, the once tortured orchard tender,needs more than saplings, morethan a sudden wet wellspring, morethan pills shaped like fat seeds and morethan thin fruit bark that is softto the frost…