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Month: October 2019

Nature…

Tree Journal

31 Oct 201931 Oct 2019
Tiny Seed Literary Journal's Tree Journal is now available! Each sale of this journal will plant a tree. Together we can make the world greener, tree by tree, seed by…
Nature…

Chapbook Contest

30 Oct 201930 Oct 2019
Submissions for our Chapbook Contest will open on Nov 1, 2019, and close on Feb 1, 2020. Calling all Nature Poets: Think Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson... poets who reflected on nature…
Nature

BRISTLECONES

30 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
Is it any more strange than believing that a man rose from the dead that wine becomes blood for me to believe that just by being among you—   you…
Nature…

The Five Hundred Year-Old Oak

28 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
The limbs, trees unto themselves; as many broken as whole, as many that touch ground as reach out high. In sleeves of moss and licorice fern they rest in neighboring…
Nature…

Winter

26 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
In view of venerable shrub pines Among each frozen fields’ unbroken creases Beside the bare birch- In the absence of birds, Deep calls to deep Then deep to deeper Amidst…
Nature…

Košava

24 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
Each wind in this country is named for the distinct noise it makes in the trees. Today through the People’s Park the Košava bursts as I sit in the glass-walled…
Nature…

Walking Trees

22 Oct 20198 Sep 2019
My wife Sandy photographs me beneath three large hala trees whose trunks point north, south, east. From the first few feet of each roots slant to the ground like legs.…
Nature…

The Greens on Red Hill

20 Oct 201915 Oct 2019
aren’t actually green- not when you really see them. But really, how rarely do we see clearly? There’s a green glazed in violet, one blasted with blackness, sage and sea,…
Nature…

Unforgettable

18 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
En route to Central Pennsylvania he greets the two ghost sycamores towering above a stand of pines on the road through the Newark Valley. Bark lit from within, luminous no…
Nature…

So light passes through leaf

16 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
From leaf I long to learn to let light through every cell.   What is this light passes through leaf?   When the leaf does not eclipse my eye, the…
Nature…

Trees by Bosgra

14 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
Johannes Bosgra (b. 1979 in Hardegarijp, the Netherlands) has travelled to the most desolate places on earth from a young age to create his work, from Antarctica to Alaska. Bosgra…
Nature…

I guess that’s why they call it Fall

12 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
  Tree stands still Photographs by Martha Nance   The photographer is a physician in Minnesota whose front yard contains a few trees, and whose trees contain color and joy…
Nature…

Wanting Silence

11 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
“Even a poem is too loud.” —A. R. (“Archie”) Ammons   Wanting Silence Fox walks as slowly as she can where pine needles soften a raw earth trail, toe-to-heel, toe-to-heel,…
Nature…

Tree House

10 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
Held aloft in a plywood room where ink stamps and old stickers wallpaper the place, sun dapples its greeting in a slow shift of tint and ants welcome whatever creature…
Nature

TREE ON TAYLOR STREET

9 Oct 201930 Sep 2019
Once overlooking Curley’s garden, it had stood amazingly tall and brusque like a celery stick plopped right next to a small house and an unpaved driveway for so long that,…
Nature

Lines Written Under The Shade Of The Lawrence Tree

7 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. --William Wordsworth High above Taos in…
Nature…

Twisty Up

6 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
Photograph by Hugh Findlay  Hugh Findlay lives in Durham, NC, and would rather be caught fishing. He drives a little red MG, throws darts on Tuesdays, reads and writes a lot,…
Nature

A Letter to Vermont

4 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
God I miss you   As I knew you The expansive evergreens Steaming sap Soon to be syrup Family waffle recipes Their yellow pages crinkled And sprinkled with flour ​…
Nature

[Loveliest of trees, the redbud here]

2 Oct 201928 Sep 2019
Loveliest of trees, the redbud here adorns a grey-bark understory, as snowy-pink blossoms now appear before the summer-green canopy.   It’s odd to see its hatching shade between the river…

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2023 Submissions

Poetry of the Wild Flowers – Jan 1, 2023

Wings – May 1, 2023 

Focus on the beauty of birds in flight, or the power of flight to inspire…

Wetlands – July 15, 2023

Observe ecology of wetlands, or the importance of wetlands to our environment…

Clouds – Sept. 1, 2023

Examine the different types of clouds, or the way clouds can create a mood…

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