Nature Moss and Mushroom – Submission Opportunity 30 Jun 202017 Jun 2020 submissions open on Submittable July 15 - Aug 1, 2020 Send us your moss and mushroom inspired poetry, photography, and flash fiction. Go out and be inspired by nature! "Nature…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Anatomy of Land 30 Jun 202026 May 2020 The mountains here: blue shavings, ice layers in the pale fade of evening light I want to taste. The blue of air scattering around my palms. The Northern Nevada rockface…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Raking Memories 29 Jun 202026 May 2020 Leaves come tumbling down Like crumbled flames -Red- Brown- Amber- Moments Days. Remember when You couldn’t pass A pile without Jumping in And down Until you hit the Dampened bottom…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White 28 Jun 202026 May 2020 I cha cha or rumba with many different trees. Look at the willow, swaying in a perpetual ballroom dance, bending but never surrendering a backbone. Or the cherry tree, all…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Miss Little Mint 27 Jun 202026 May 2020 A dream of the past The plant of the future She is growing so fast! You will take over the garden Smelling so sweet With water to go around You…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Night Musk 26 Jun 202026 Jun 2020 There's a dragon in every skunk. When threatened, he breathes white musk and burns your scent. -Kristin Yates Kristin Yates is home-grown from the backyard, flora and fauna rooting inside…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Immortal Jellyfish 25 Jun 202028 May 2020 -Sarah Elizabeth Key My creative writing life began in entertainment public relations where I wrote press releases that were pure fiction. My publication history includes eight cookbooks, essays on the…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Winter Haiku 24 Jun 202028 May 2020 Sun rays pass through trees Barren bushes warmed,twitching Flocks of sparrows hidden Snow a’skift on branches Red berries frozen to ash limbs Cedar waxwings feast Brown-bodied squirrels Scurry up poplars…
Chapbook Contest 2020… New Hampshire Evening 23 Jun 202026 May 2020 Dinnertime and the edge Of the whole western sky carries color From faded apricot to muted pinks That soften and blend Up into palest gray. It's now truly dusk; The…
Nature… Tiny Seed Journal is pleased to introduce Soli Levi in our internship program! 22 Jun 20201 Jun 2020 Soli Levi is a writer and is currently undertaking an internship at the Tiny Seed Journal. Her passion for poetry began in childhood as she grew up on the coasts…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Our Call 21 Jun 202026 May 2020 When the sky broke, it bled out a wet light that cut through our source of life while singing with larks a silent hallelujah, and landed in a tree in…
Chapbook Contest 2020… The Pond 20 Jun 202026 May 2020 Pond. Moonrise. Trees and domed behind them night’s uncertain premise: if it is not the start it must be the end of day. The mushroom lifts its veil signs the…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Now, Then, Always 19 Jun 202028 May 2020 You had taken leaps to moon. The eye of the sun. You had made efforts to ants’ paths, You had made meals to damsels in the light. You had taken…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Morning Walk 18 Jun 202026 May 2020 So much has been written about how to pray, A dizzying flurry of dos and don’ts, Categories, composition, and comportment For proper petition and praise. So many voices filling my…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Imprint 17 Jun 202028 May 2020 In a soaking August haze, he slowly packs the car so an evening breeze off Lake Superior can comfort him twelve hundred miles away where shiny bits of glass pierce…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Aspect 16 Jun 202026 May 2020 -Poem by Sam Campbell, after Philip Schaefer. Sam Campbell co-edits Wend Poetry. His work has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and can be found in journals…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Song Of All Things 15 Jun 202026 May 2020 Once in a while, when night is awake, a curious happening comes over the lake. A song settles in that only nature sings. The endless, unlabored song of all things.…
Nature Seasoned 14 Jun 202028 May 2020 Light spatters on stagnant pond water Like grease on a skillet— Cast iron,the kind old-timers Cherished and refused to scrub clean. -Don Thompson Don Thompson has been writing about the…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Pull the Plug 13 Jun 202026 May 2020 Pull the plug and drain the shiny Moon to create a waterfall of luminescent liquid so we can fill the world with the happiness of moonbeams and all the people…
Chapbook Contest 2020… The Idea of Love at Troncones 12 Jun 202026 May 2020 At Troncones Beach a heron and an egret Fish together every morning One white one dark as the other’s shadow They are bonded by some force or another As I…
Nature Bull Elk 11 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 I closed my eyes today and was right there with ya. Some Montana hillside, gravelly and tanned. Cool air in my lungs and warm sun on my back. You were…
Chapbook Contest 2020… That Promise 10 Jun 202026 May 2020 It is not amazing how day moves into twilight and twilight to night except it is watching the slow, sure gradation of light leaving…
Chapbook Contest 2020… I Asked 9 Jun 202030 May 2020 I asked for sapdrawn from a woundI made on purposeto drain her life bloodjust a littleto render it downto a sweet, singing syrup,laughter of the mapleher scarlet dresseswarm and startlingagainst…
Chapbook Contest 2020… New Voice in Our Yard Yesterday 8 Jun 202026 May 2020 A voice I’ve never heard before spoke to me as I walked past the copse of oaks yesterday. I stopped. Listening to the pleasant sound in our back yard announcing…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Early Modern Junco 7 Jun 202030 May 2020 A winter’s gift to me:you, the dark-eyed commoner,winter’s executioner of seeds,hooded entertainer of kings,under laden boughs of snow,paused in your solemn deed,a frozen prayer nowbefore the flash and peckof your…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Windswept Verses #12 6 Jun 20207 Jun 2020 In a sugar-green valley I will waketo panes of glass that seal the skyridges of jagged teeth will teeter in the seaand in the east one vaporous peak residecloud-fleets will…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Surrogate Cloud 5 Jun 202026 May 2020 She was a droplet of a little rain wind storming, cloud already fleeting dropping lonely, gathering things: (partnering, parting) Freezing. Hailed me down, coolly nearing melting, kiss from moist lips…
