Plant Your Words – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Unfurling

14 Nov 20221 Nov 2022

Photograph by Felicia White I am a nature loving mountain mama of the NEK of Vermont. Writing and photography are my outlets of expression. It brings me such joy to…

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Why I plant Orange Tithonias

8 Nov 20228 Nov 2022

Photographs by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota and lover of (some) small living things. Images of bees and monarchs and hummingbirds fill her thoughts each spring…

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Barrio Garden

6 Nov 20222 Feb 2023

shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe backyard sanctuary for all seasons under the shade of a chinaberry tree yerba buena rue rosemary in coffee cans truck tire helped along with…

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Wildflowers at Tully Lake

5 Nov 20221 Nov 2022

Along the lakeshore’s forest trail, with birdsong as company. I find the bright white of bunchberry illumining the dim floor, though small and simple in construct and color reveal elegance…

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Baptism

4 Nov 20221 Nov 2022

Washed in the waterMy edges are smootherLike driftwoodBaptizedBy nature’s holy waterI softenRefreshedWith a newfound senseTo flowNot resistA place I return toOftenWheneverI seek renewal Poem by Felicia White I live in…

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Plow the World For Planting

3 Nov 202228 Oct 2022

words are like seeds within are leaf and stem and root words are like seeds hold next year’s hope when the world bleeds and when they’re trampled under boots it…

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Assisted Writing

2 Nov 202227 Oct 2022

I don't always know a falcon from a hawk but as feathers fall I tote them home in my shirt pocket poke brown black cream striped plumes of a softness…

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Broken Paths

1 Nov 202226 Oct 2022

Stagnant water pooling here or there in dips, cracks patched over, asphalt heaped on asphalt smothering the earth. Somehow a tuft of cyclamen has succeeded in wrestling its way through…

Tulip Poplars

30 Oct 202220 Oct 2022

He who marveled at the tulip poplars, growing so abundant, Admonished a friend who didn’t know The tulip poplar in their own yard, the only tree In their sea of…

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A Douglas Fir Lesson

28 Oct 202220 Oct 2022

every time they visit, we pilgrimage this homemade trail the oldest asks, are we going to see your tree? the youngest wants to find if he has one as we…

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Adagio with Drums

26 Oct 202218 Oct 2022

Pine limbs, oak limbs divvy up shafts of sunlight as rain sifts straight-lined, windless. Grass grows slick. As if ice-cased, bamboo shimmers in glissando. Leaves blaze. Each drop that clings…

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After the Gale

25 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

Ivory spines disguise the oaks’ south sides, slivers of sunshine lightening their rough trunks. What furrowed pallor, what dignity: spires anchored to all others underneath, delight clad in the plucked…

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Yuccastarburst

23 Oct 202218 Oct 2022

Photograph by Benjamin Green Benjamin Green is the author of eleven books including The Sound of Fish Dreaming. At the age of sixty-six he hopes his new work articulates a…

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The Iris Advisory

22 Oct 202218 Oct 2022

Put a joy thought Like a bouquet of store bought Purple Dutch irises In between the crevices Of your forlorn heart Do it with intention Not as an afterthought Poem…

Faces of Fortune

21 Oct 202218 Oct 2022

Photographs by Lynne Goldsmith Lynne's nature poems have been featured in Tiny Seed Literary Journal. She also loves taking nature photos. She's been a Royal Dragonfly Award Winner and Purple…