Plant Your Words Restraint 7 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 No speaking is effortless, and not speaking even harder. Sometimes when I talk to the roses I embed, I stop, close my lips, listen to what the green life speaks.…
Nature Wait 6 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 Waiting for today to end, I look for tomorrow. I feel the seeds of tomorrow, the fruits of a new garden, new moon, or perhaps even a new sun. …
Plant Your Words Winter Solstice Reflections 5 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 Taken on the Winter Solstice..a time for deep “reflection”. Reflecting on nature, so mysteriously beautiful, even on the darkest day of the year; as nature reflects back on the river,…
Plant Your Words Eyes of Jasper 4 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 Photograph by Tracey Dean Widelitz Tracey Dean Widelitz is a published writer, poet and photographer. She is the author of the worldwide published children’s book 'A Heavenly World'. She has…
Plant Your Words The Creek Nearby 3 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 I sat with my son by the creek this evening, the sun a shadow beyond the leaves, and I wondered why the water was shallower than I remembered it was…
Plant Your Words A poem for mid-March 2 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 I am like a crocus coming in— breaking from the dirt and breathing. I don’t know how crocuses sleep through the storms, and the snow, and every short, dark day—…
Plant Your Words Farmstead Intimacy 1 Oct 202217 Sep 2022 Let the aches and pains remind me of the contentment I experience when working with my hands. Gentle wind in my face, sun caressing my back, sweat stinging my eyes…
Plant Your Words Farmstead Intimacy 1 Oct 202216 Sep 2022 Let the aches and pains remind me of the contentment I experience when working with my hands. Gentle wind in my face, sun caressing my back, sweat stinging my eyes…
Nature 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…
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