Chapbook Contest 2020 – TINY SEED LITERARY JOURNAL

Chapbook Contest 2020

Poetry for Nature Lovers

Tiny Seed Press Chapbook Winner: Tabitha van der Lee This Beauty Has No Language by Tabitha van der Lee published by Tiny Seed Press is now available. 10% of the…

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Reading of “This Is My Work” by Tabitha van der Lee

15 Nov 202016 Nov 2020

This Beauty Has No Language by Tabitha van der Lee published by Tiny Seed Press is now available. 10% of the book’s proceeds are donated to the Rodale Institute.…

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Reading of “Closer” by Tabitha van der Lee

15 Nov 202016 Nov 2020

This Beauty Has No Language by Tabitha van der Lee published by Tiny Seed Press is now available. 10% of the book’s proceeds are donated to the Rodale Institute. The…

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Reading of “To The Oak Tree” by Tabitha van der Lee

15 Nov 202016 Nov 2020

This Beauty Has No Language by Tabitha van der Lee published by Tiny Seed Press is now available. 10% of the book’s proceeds are donated to the Rodale Institute. The…

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Reading of “Crooked Ways” by Tabitha van der Lee

15 Nov 202016 Nov 2020

This Beauty Has No Language by Tabitha van der Lee published by Tiny Seed Press is now available. 10% of the book’s proceeds are donated to the Rodale Institute.…

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Book Launch – This Beauty Has No Language

15 Nov 202015 Dec 2020

2020 Tiny Seed Press Chapbook Winner: Tabitha van der Lee This Beauty Has No Language by Tabitha van der Lee published by Tiny Seed Press is now available. 10% of…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…