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20 Mar 2025
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27 Mar 2025
Just a reminder that tinywords 25.1 began this week. If you want to follow along with our 25th year of daily #haiku and #micropoetry publishing, please follow us via our website, email, or B***sky. Thank you.
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22 Mar 2025
tinywords resumes next week. We have just posted the winners of our photo prompt contest. Please follow us on our website or BlueSky if you want to stay in touch.
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20 Mar 2025
We, the editors and publisher of tinywords, believe in free expression, creativity, inclusiveness, and global friendship. As artists, poets, human beings, and American citizens, we can no longer support the fascism, intolerance, and repressiveness that X enables and promotes.
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20 Mar 2025
Therefore, we will no longer be posting haiku and micropoetry here.
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We look forward to seeing you and sharing haiku with you there.
-Peter, Kathe, and Dylan
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26 Aug 2024
Hello tinywords community! A reminder that our reading window closes in a week, on Aug. 31. Submit your tiny poetry here: tinywords.com/?p=41278
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31 Jul 2024
tinywords will be on pause until the next issue begins at the end of September. In the meantime, check out our photo prompt:
tinywords.com/?p=41278
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24 Jul 2024
I shake the sand
out of my walking shoes -
early autumn rain
(Ori
-Maeve O'Sullivan
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23 Jul 2024
feeling a chill
the scarlet maple
spills out of itself
-Carol Raisfeld
tinywords.com/?p=40970
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22 Jul 2024
chill in the air—
leaves swirling
by an election sign
-Michael Dylan Welch
tinywords.com/?p=40995
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19 Jul 2024
the odd angles of dissent bamboo grove
(haiga)
-Shloka Shankar
tinywords.com/?p=41100
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16 Jul 2024
first snow
some pills
are hard to swallow
-Joseph P Wechselberger
tinywords.com/?p=40470
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15 Jul 2024
sharp-edged dune grass
we argue
against the wind
-Jean LeBlanc
tinywords.com/?p=40454
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12 Jul 2024
big dipper, little dipper
I memorize
your laugh lines
-Elisa Theriana
tinywords.com/?p=41254
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11 Jul 2024
my son learns
what it means to be infinite
first winter stars
-Matthew Moffett
tinywords.com/?p=40943
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10 Jul 2024
raven atop
the towering snag --
a winter's tale
-Sheila Sondik
tinywords.com/?p=40932
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9 Jul 2024
no birds calling
a shiver winds through
the upper boughs
-Antoinette Cheung
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8 Jul 2024
late winter
the thump of a basketball
up and down the street
-Frank Hooven
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