Nature – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Nature

The Tiburon Mariposa Lily

31 May 202326 May 2023

only grows on the thin serpentine soils that coat the slopes of Ring Mountain Preserve in Tiburon, California. Serpentinite, gray-green California state rock, so beautiful, so poisonous to life that…

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Bog

30 May 202326 May 2023

A wise woman told me that mixing air and water, intellect and emotion, yields fierce compassion. My lungs, thick with sobs do not believe. Water forces itself everywhere, seeping into…

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Wildflower Ramble

29 May 202326 May 2023

Our footsteps bruise a dark trail through foxtails, poppies, sky lupine. Here among greasewood, homesteads melt back to fern. A sinking oak rots into damp miner's lettuce. Iron nails rust…

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Matchless

28 May 202326 May 2023

This morning trumpet blasts its brassy two tone chartreuse and Merlot splashed lips in my face. She’s a root-bound strumpe in a bottle-blue vase swaying in accompaniment to a balmy…

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Who May Wish To Adjust Their Contract Regarding Endings

27 May 202326 May 2023

(inspired by a photo by Kit Sibert) White dandelions in a field, a sudden field. Overnight, an entire company of dream-addled recruits has seeped and flowed from the distant, dark,…

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Drift

25 May 202320 May 2023

The canyon does not need my help: seasons cycle, the years tally, the moon, never once thinking of me, swells and recedes, full to sliver, and a few times every…

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Wildflowers of Northern Winter

24 May 202320 May 2023

In December, small birds blossom from treetops at dawn; the sun blooms like a dinnerplate dahlia, gold at its center and pink at the tips of its reach. Clumps of…

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Rudbeckia

23 May 202320 May 2023

Don’t call me black-eyed Susan.I am Rudbeckia hirta.Don’t make me seem triviallike a frilly child in a yellow smockskipping across a meadow.I tell you I am lovelierand more significant than…

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Daisy, Daisy, Daisy

22 May 202318 May 2023

She blossoms like a daisy,shouldering her way throughthe thick-bodied blades to bask her white petal armsin the sun. In summer’s furiousheat she does not shrink but thrives in blazing abundance.Watch…

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Queen Anne’s Lace

21 May 202317 May 2023

In the field along the riverbanktwo empty white chairsface one another near the water pump,sunflowers alreadyscraggly and dried.I snap a stem of Queen Anne’s Lace,inhaling its late-summer scentas I twirl…

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An Alpine Forget-Me-Not

20 May 202317 May 2023

In dormant form I rest under fiftyfeet of snow buffeted by howlingwinds high on the tundra of RockyMountain National Park beneathtowering peaks above 13,000 feet.Ever so gradually in April the…

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Mountain Thistles

19 May 202317 May 2023

The thistle is not earth’s most beautiful plant.Nor is the purple urchin of its blossom excusefor the ragged anger of its leaves and spines.But its roots spread into its motherlike…

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Ode to the Wild Strawberry

18 May 202317 May 2023

Oh, yellow bloom atop stout stemwith five petals to turn intoripe, sweet berries. Oh, green,green leaf with ruffled edge,may spring pander to your heart,and April nourish your beautywith its cool…

Forever Wild Beauty

1 May 202314 Apr 2023

We don’t think of them in winter.Winter and flowers at oppositeends of that continuum of seasons.But they are there standing in coldand snow as if guardians to secretsof the earth…

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Wings

23 Apr 202323 Apr 2023

Theme: Wings The beauty of birds in flight, the power of flight to inspire, the engineering and physics of how wings enable flight...let YOUR imagination take flight with this theme,…

Bindweed

17 Apr 202310 Apr 2023

She is no respecter of paths or crops. Her leavesas sharp as arrows feed no livestock, fill no bellies.She is an immigrant who keeps her own counsel,insolently creeping like a…

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Penstemon Honey

16 Apr 20239 Apr 2023

Snowdrops nearNod to peony —Both born againAfter novae,After nebulae,After black holes —To blossomIn mountain galaxies. A hint of pepper’s sting,A feathery touchOf primrose,Tease as I lift the lid.My jar of…

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Our 4 Year Anniversary

2 Feb 202311 Feb 2023

Four years ago today, Tiny Seed Literary Journal was created… a seed was planted, and a tiny dream was given roots… with a vision to create an online journal for lovers…

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The Turning by Featured Poet Alice B Fogel

6 Jan 20239 Mar 2023

(from poems on the Appalachian Trail) Even while the spruce grows held upright between gravity and heaven it twirls upon its axis, a core that changes year by year, though…

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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…

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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…