Nature 4 Year Anniversary for Tiny Seed Journal 2 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…
Featured Poet… The Turning by Featured Poet Alice B. Fogel 6 Jan 20232 Jan 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…
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…
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…
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 7 Dec 2022 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 5 Dec 2022 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…
Nature Sunflowers 1 Dec 202229 Nov 2022 One year ago I pressed sunflower seeds Gently into soil Watered them and waited They were small sprouts Through the spring As the world shut down And live upended They…
Nature What looks like perfect peach 30 Nov 202228 Nov 2022 I pluck from the tree—disregardinga few dark spots here and there—this is gonna be a good one.salivating expectationhow lovely this will beas snack, as cobbler, as ice cream.I slice it…
Nature Wicker Collards 29 Nov 202228 Nov 2022 The First Bite Note: On receiving Wicker Family Heading Collard Seeds, first cultivated in Prosperity,South Carolina in the 1800s, grown out by Nat Bradford and sent in the mail November2021.…
Nature Trust as Synonym for Gardener 28 Nov 202227 Nov 2022 What else to call it when you dropseeds into furrows where only a fewdays earlier crystals of frost shonein the early sunlight? What otherlabel to apply to those who wouldbet…
Nature The Grand River’s Cul-de-sac 27 Nov 202227 Nov 2022 A Norway Maple nods to a Ginkgowho laughs with a Kousa Dogwoodat a teenage Eastern Redbud whoin angst spits seedpods on a sewer plate stamped 1948 whereimmigrants are a blessing…
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