Category: Books

books and music

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books and music
from over the years
live on these shelves

even if I don’t
reread or listen again

somehow their
healing influence
is in these words

by Ellen Grace Olinger

The Haiku Way To Healing: Illness, Injury and Pain (Including Senryu, Tanka and Haiga). Edited by Robert Epstein, 2022. Middle Island Press, West Union, WV.

I reprinted my three poems from this anthology on February 2, 2023.

Reusable Art

A poem about our home library goes well with my haiku yesterday about books from our Oostburg Public Library 

Reusable Art

Pair of Daisies and Tulip Garden are courtesy of Reusable Art.

Libraries

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This week I went to our Oostburg Public Library “Modern resources, personalized services.”

I have shared my acrostic before, from July 18, 2012. I wrote, Thanks to all who work in libraries and do so much to serve our communities.

L ove of literature
I nspires countless
B eautiful hours of
R eading many
A uthors, and sometimes
R ereading beloved books
Y early

LIBRARY – WestWard Quarterly, Fall 2018

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names and addresses

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Yesterday I wrote that Time Of Singing poetry journal begins Volume 50 with the Spring 2023 issue. I remembered this poem.

names and addresses
for dear friends
no longer on earth
old address book

not yet written
in the overflowing book
cards and envelopes
with last known
addresses

still wanting to remember
what may no longer
be current – places I was
people I knew

Time Of Singing Spring 2018

“not yet written” and “still wanting to remember” were also published in All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019). Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press; West Union, WV.

Poem in this post is by Ellen Grace Olinger.

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