Seeds TUFTY’S ACORN TREE 13 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 Tufty has broke her wing, she cannot fly for 2 months. A feather falls off in the soil. She waters the ground with her tears. 2 months later, when she…
Seeds Ginger Maple 12 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 The seed of a tree grows a tree of our nation, the tree of our nation grows the soul of a seed, the key that reflects the flecks of golden…
Seeds Bridging Birdhouses 11 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 You feed birds, they plant sunflowers— tilling dirt with claws, beaks, the weight of wings, still and in motion. Grass yellows, becomes thick, hairy, prickly with petals and light. The…
Seeds The Garnet Soul 10 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 Photograph by Tracey Dean Widelitz Tracey Dean Widelitz is a published writer, poet and photographer, and is the author of 'A Heavenly World' children's book. Her poetry has…
Seeds Losing the Gravity of the Situation 9 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 Violets press against my back working together to hold me flat an inch above the true ground. Here stand one million dandelions, one million suns. I can’t matter much at…
Seeds How to Eat a Pine Tree 8 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 suck it down from the top blending dirt and wind, stir with birds’ breath and feathers shake it like a rain cloud, seeded and skinless, an unoccupied color, bear off…
Seeds Gifts from the seeds 7 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 I turn you in my palm, each of you a plant entire curled within tight kernel, like messages in a bottle tumbling through the rapids of uncertain futures. tiny…
Seeds Tiny Bird 5 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 dangling into the chasm of transition into double digits, she begs to graduate from the Junior version of Apples to Apples. I stretch, making space then sort out most proper…
Seeds Overture to a Seed 4 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 Hello tiny seed, would you do me the favor of growing for me? I know you’ve traveled far to get here in your pretty paper packet. I want you to…
Seeds Sometimes (a Seed) 3 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 and sometimes like the day I am breaking I am becoming sharp light and the stillness is leaving the quiet is gone I am unable to find the sleep…
Seeds Seeds of Womanhood 2 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 Family, friends, teachers planted seeds since birth. Confidence, judgment, self-discipline lay dormant, waited for opportune conditions, time to mature. Conscientiousness, tolerance hid within like buried treasure, awaited discovery. Curiosity, creativity,…
Seeds Heart in a cottonwood tree 1 Jul 202222 Jun 2022 Bowed planks, soft from the change of seasons, sag in the cleft of the tree. They are forgotten scraps, gathered and assembled with a child’s sense of infinite possibility. Tenderly,…
Seeds Abundance 30 Jun 202222 Jun 2022 That night, Abundance washed over us. Sorrow Compassion Whisky Anger And love. In the aftermath Scorched earth. Trees, emaciated. Nothing stirred. Soon enough, though Shoots persevered Achingly green. Buzzing returned,…
Seeds Ode to the Dandelion 29 Jun 202222 Jun 2022 Poem by Anne Richardson Anne Richardson is a poet, chaplain, spiritual companion, labyrinth facilitator, and Reiki master and believes everyone’s story is sacred. She finds her poetic voice…
Seeds Seeds Life 28 Jun 202222 Jun 2022 Seduced by the wind, Stolen on the bird’s wing, Scattered by a sinuous stream, Surrendering to mother’s rich soil, Slumbering serenely in silent time, Scrupulously caressed by sweet sunshine, Soothingly…
Seeds Solace of the Seed 27 Jun 202222 Jun 2022 Carolina Wren postured on a limb Bursting forth the ancient hymn Calling to buds, blades, and seeds Awake, awake respond to the plead The winter sleep is now ended As…
Seeds 3 Seed Haiku 26 Jun 202222 Jun 2022 SACRED tree stumps made alters gifts left behind, offerings new seedling abloom UNTITLED SEED HAIKU 1 tiny grass seeds grow thriving among paved sidewalks push through emotions UNTITLED…
Seeds Waiting For Spring 25 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 Photography by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician and sometimes-photographer of the things, mostly little things, around her. Her photos have been seen in previous Tiny Seed publications,…
Seeds Scorpionweed 24 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 the purple fiddle-head flowers were pretty at first, adorning hairy foliage so we let them be, a weed, we knew, yet somehow ornamental but then the plants turned brown, leaves…
Seeds Top Down 23 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 If we remove the top predators nature is decapitated and all the seeds fly away. As seeds we can blow anywhere you want to travel. We can even create a…
Seeds Costa Rica Gestalt 22 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 coatiagouti hummingbirdkite treefrogcroc lianafig raincloudforest If I am able to blossom for fruit bats, I will become seed fallen to earth with potential for further development—a seedling Poem by…
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