May 2020 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Chapbook Contest 2020…

Spider

31 May 202025 May 2020

Spider,spin your web for me.Fold me in silken cordshammock-likebeneath the stars.Swing me out over water –feel the rush –mother’s bloodwarmth of womb,beating heart.Gird me to the earth,silver strands,lissome in the…

Chapbook Contest 2020…

Birds Save Me Daily

30 May 202021 May 2020

from the confines of thoughtmove me into momentsof pure perception: titmousechickadee, nuthatch, wren, woodpeckersmall feet grasping cold, metal cagesheads and necks stretching into holesbills biting seedwings carrying feathered bodiesback to…

Haiku for each Season

29 May 202025 May 2020

Winter Dazzled by glitter I pause to take in A field of frozen diamonds Spring Pregnant with spring thaw Swelling over its banks Life giving river Summer Out of the…

Chapbook Contest 2020…

Alchemy

28 May 202013 May 2020

I watch my mother’s ashes catch the air, scatter and dust the bark of the sugar maple she and my father planted the year before he died. Come spring I…

Robbing the Pillars

27 May 202025 May 2020

Michael Garrigan, a Tiny Seed Journal contributor, recently published his first full-length poetry collection, Robbing the Pillars. Description: The headwaters of Robbing the Pillars begin deep in the anthracite country…

Brown-headed Parrot

26 May 202018 May 2020

Photograph by Owen Robertson I am a 12-year-old birder/photographer who has been on a trip around the world with my family of 4. Our travels have included southern Africa, Indonesia,…

Tree Reflections

25 May 202018 May 2020

Photograph by Elspeth Moore Elspeth Moore lives in Bristol, Avon. She loves photography and art, and primarily experimenting with light and shadows. In nature she especially likes photographing flora, but…

Mossy Grove

24 May 202018 May 2020

Photograph by Holden Flosi Holden is twelve years old. He lives in Seattle where he loves to take hikes and photographs, and write about what he sees.

WINTER SPARROWS

23 May 202011 May 2020

Today they’re on my old oak tree a swarm of sparrows suspended on brittle branches. Feathers fluffed into round balls they resemble Christmas baubles, some stare down at a smorgasbord…

The Immortal Sunflower

22 May 20208 May 2020

In this semi-autobiographical compilation, Sophia Falco not only offers a bold new poetic voice, but also a glimpse into a stigmatized consciousness. On a journey to explore her own experiences…

Nature

Nature’s Front Row Seats

21 May 20208 May 2020

As the moon shivers, awaiting dawn’s morning smile Stars dance in the northern sky A silky cloak of moonlight teases starward gazers. Northern lights weave their beauty, A Picasso from…

When the Longest Route is the Fastest

20 May 202014 May 2020

Perched silent and spellbound on the sofa by the window, I watch you deconstruct your idea of the bird, characteristic by characteristic. Once separated, you place these details around the…

Spring is Mud

19 May 20208 May 2020

Spring is mud and the wind is just colder than the sun looked from inside the house and I need to give you those cables back, thanks for the jump,…

Forest Portrait

18 May 20207 May 2020

I. the forest In the forest’s design, mistakes are kings of art. A tree bends, a bow to unintention; a rock dies, fallen plan without cause. II. night storm The…

Introducing Tabitha van der Lee – winner of the 2020 Tiny Seed Chapbook Contest

17 May 202020 May 2020

This Beauty Has No Language I do not know why she stood there so still and tranquil and full of tenderness. I do not know what it is that she…

Hindsight

16 May 202019 Mar 2020

As a kid I yearned for hurricanes, tornadoes; even earthquakes, envied countries that had them – they seemed more in touch with the elements than our miserly temperate rainy winters,…

High Lights

15 May 20207 May 2020

We swam into the Caribbean, escaping the noise. Azraq’s panicked nails drew blood on my chest. Lest some creature’s bloodlust be ignited, I pivoted, following the flashing lighthouse. Inside celestial…

Nature

California Wild Flowers

14 May 20207 May 2020

Photographs by Brendan Praniewicz Brendan Praniewicz captured these Southern California wildflowers. Last year, there was a super bloom that led to miles of flowers, and he captured these shots provided.…

Kinship

12 May 20207 May 2020

Does the seed know it is made to be more than a seed? Or does it too, tremble, At every mysterious stirring from within; at each unknown and strange vibration…

Nature Photography…

Behold the Beauty

11 May 202024 Mar 2020

Photograph series Behold the Beauty by Greg Turlock Greg Turlock is a published poet, author, and photographer. His credits include “Rivers of Life”, an award-winning poem from the 2019…

Lions Teeth

10 May 202024 Mar 2020

One morning It reared its head above the grass Yellow mane on display Teeth bared for all to admire Tracking the sun through the afternoon Content to survey its kingdom…