December 2022 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Nature

Poetry of the Wild Flowers

28 Dec 202227 Dec 2022

Theme: Wildflowers POETRY Wildflowers are flowers that grow freely in the wild. Wildflowers grow in forests, fields, parks, and unusual places like floating bogs and sidewalk cracks. If a wildflower…

Shadow by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

23 Dec 20229 Mar 2023

(from poems on the Appalachian Trail) If there is some divine shadow flung over every worldly thing, that could be a reason for rhyming cirrus with feathers, wind with wings,…

Nature

The Melody of Winter by Eidan Miana

21 Dec 202223 Jan 2023

The symphony of the city screams out of tune, unpleasant and erratic. The ruckus of piercing horns, hissing bells, and chaotic conversations pound my ears relentlessly. Screens harass my eyes…

Nature

In a concrete abyss

20 Dec 202216 Dec 2022

The sounds of crickets echoed, the warm summer flew away in a whirlwind, the whistling of a burning core rushes into the house where the little princess is sleeping. There…

Nature

Dances with Camphor

18 Dec 202216 Dec 2022

When spring arrives in Florida, no one safely traverses our back patio. Our camphor tree cinnamomum camphora, which provides plenteous shade from Florida’s searing summer wrath, nevertheless, turns on us.…

Nature

Into The Countryside

17 Dec 202216 Dec 2022

I see trees and they look menacing, like witch fingers,I see birds in the sky and they fly where they wish,I see clouds, they shape into whatever concept upon my…

Plant Your Words

Natural Law (Fig Leaf)

16 Dec 202211 Dec 2022

Emulated from a sweet tooth long ago The fig leaf is a prudent prophetic piece of the past A transcendental transitory Mitigating the pressures between our psyches This boiling bowl…

Plant Your Words

Plant Your Words

15 Dec 202211 Dec 2022

Plant your words here on this page,on your lipsin the garden of your mind where thoughts blossomgrow in the dappled shadows,the moist earth of tomorrow. Seed life…

Plant Your Words

Mono No Aware

14 Dec 20229 Dec 2022

Photograph by Talitha May Attuned to the sensory richness of the everyday, my photography invites exploring folds, textures, light and shadow. Talitha May is a researcher and artist who lives…

Plant Your Words

Rise Up Geranium Word-Gems (Pelargoniums)

13 Dec 202211 Feb 2023

My geraniums cry outfor water to quench their thirstlike my words waitin the sanctuary of my mind,ready to sprout on the blank page,once a pinch of the pencilor a snip…

Plant Your Words

Choice of Tree

12 Dec 202227 Nov 2022

She, the once tortured orchard tender,needs more than saplings, morethan a sudden wet wellspring, morethan pills shaped like fat seeds and morethan thin fruit bark that is softto the frost…

Plant Your Words

Climate Changing tanka

11 Dec 202227 Nov 2022

Poem by Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat has been nominated for the pending 2022 Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Star Award, won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, the Poetry in the…

Nature

Sienna

10 Dec 20228 Dec 2022

The ground accepts the poem—how organic matter moveslike elegies personified,how minerals breaklinesto build cadence,how water runs like imageryto show what isand what isn’t,how air demands feelingthe breathof living and dead…

Nature

With Apologies to Mary Oliver

9 Dec 20228 Dec 2022

Forgive me —Every year, the wild yellow rosebush outside my parents’ houseRiots and rebels with glorious abandonAnd every year,I’m too busy burning alive to notice it doing the same I…

Nature

my lips touch

8 Dec 20227 Dec 2022

you stirred into me –a heaping teaspoonof Nestle Quikin a glass of cold milk. i made you a nightshirt of kissesso when you sleepmy lips touch your body like the…

Nature

No Apologies

Almost 40 years I have been here andthinking about the number ofapologies that I have spoken makesme queasy. I have begun so manysentences with one that demeans theirpurpose, to lighten…

Nature

Candid

6 Dec 20226 Dec 2022

I open as a blazing starTiptoed yet sturdyMy arms, waxed, electrifiedSending up spires of purpleWith orbits of ghostly glintsBlack veined, silk threaded. Dark green lances burst forthFrom within my hips…

Nature

After September

I thought I had it downwith the poppies I planted,the neat rows of corn.I woke up dreaming it was in my grasp:I could nail you, proverbial, like a loose board;have…

Nature

Holy Green,Sweet-Smelling

4 Dec 20222 Dec 2022

I have never seen your flowing glossy greenOr wound the robust pliancy of your fibers,Tender yet strong, strung like the sinewsOf a sweet-blooded filly, between my fingers.I have never cut…

Nature

Dragonfly

3 Dec 20222 Dec 2022

Photograph by Rita Fullerton I retired from education and decided since I had more time to work on my photography I would immerse myself in photographing the world around me.

Nature

Serendipity

2 Dec 20222 Dec 2022

The seeds nestle in my handNot your final place I whisperYou were made for greater thingsI place them in the dirt I have preparedSmoothing more dirt over the topAdding water…