Sunday morning
all the lovely voices
singing Silent Night
Sunday morning
Category: Christmas
Amazing Grace
Christmas With Judy Collins (2013, Wildflower Records) is a new CD for me this year. The last song is Amazing Grace. Her beautiful voice, and her site is Judy Collins.
Poems from my archives:
breakfast and music
when a song begins
I know the words
Amazing Grace
far from perfect
and in need of grace
we found our way
to unconditional love
cup from a thrift store
on my grandmother’s
straw chest
near the window
fills with light
For my grandmother Grace
daily grace
rice cooked
for the weekend
dishes washed
and light in my study
daily grace is a new poem at Poems From Psalms And Nature.
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
Songs and Poems
My earliest memories of art, music, and poetry are from church. I think of Christmas songs. Away in a Manger and O Holy Night are two examples. And I see how they inspired my short poems.
holiness
and humility
Christmas
SEASON Acrostic Poem
S ilence
E nlivens
A nd
S olitude
O pens
N ew thoughts
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose
under the heaven . . .
Ecclesiastes 3: 1 (KJV)
SEASON is one of the poems from Quiet Christmas Poetry, which is both a site and a large print chapbook. Please see the post there, Quiet Christmas Poetry: 2020 Update, if you would like more information.
Christmas songs
Christmas songs
and memories . . .
Amy Grant’s music
I am listening to Icon Christmas by Amy Grant. Three of the songs are Jingle Bells, Breath Of Heaven (Mary’s Song), and Silent Night.
Silent Night also brings back memories of my Swedish grandmother and my mother.
Garden journal photo by Karl – Christmas 2018
Poinsettias: Poems and Photos
almost dawn
small pink poinsettia
waits by the window
December 2019
Northern sun
shines on frozen beach
still the days grow shorter
shadow of poinsettia
on the wall
“Northern sun” is from our Quiet Christmas Poetry site and large print chapbook.
November Wisconsin Countryside
November Wisconsin countryside
Bare trees elegant against the sky
Colors in the landscape muted now
October’s glory is gone
And love grows eternally
SMILE, Fall/Winter 2008 – 09
The picture is from November 30, 2011. I wrote “We bought this beautiful poinsettia at Mentink’s Piggly Wiggly Market here in Oostburg last Saturday. Photo by Karl on this blue sky sunny day.”
Creative Note: SMILE, a large print poetry journal, was edited and published by Joyce M. Johnson for years.
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 