July 2022 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

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

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Seeds

Seeds of Womanhood

2 Jul 202222 Jun 2022

Family, friends, teachers planted seeds since birth. Confidence, judgment, self-discipline lay dormant, waited for opportune conditions, time to mature. Conscientiousness, tolerance hid within like buried treasure, awaited discovery. Curiosity, creativity,…

Seeds

Heart in a cottonwood tree

1 Jul 202222 Jun 2022

Bowed planks, soft from the change of seasons, sag in the cleft of the tree. They are forgotten scraps, gathered and assembled with a child’s sense of infinite possibility. Tenderly,…