Describe your perfect birthday cake.
Bloganuary Prompt for January 28, 2023
This prompt brings back memories of working in a bakery when I was in high school. Sometimes the manager shared a beautiful cake with all of us. My father shopped at the store too. He bought rolls, and my mother baked cookies and cakes.
I am seeing some winter poems. Yesterday, snow at rest on branches, and a few are broken. Old trees and strong winds. Robins will return.
Today I am reading the new WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading. Shirley Anne Leonard is the Editor, and Dr. Richard Leonard is the Publisher.
Two of my poems that have been published in this print magazine:
spruce tree branches
by the windows
each day a painting
Winter 2021
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
Fall 2018
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
I pray the Psalms for peace. I look at my blog and am grateful for readers from many countries. And posts from many countries. My father and others in our families were/are veterans. In 1978, I went to Poland with my father. This was for almost a month, with a formal group from UW-Milwaukee. For new readers, and all readers, one of our sites is POEMS FROM PSALMS AND NATURE. It amazes me, through decades of life so far, how the Psalms offer hope. When I am overwhelmed, this practice of contemplative prayer is a source of strength.
This post continues my post yesterday, Old Poems For A New Month: Notebook Of Prayers.
L ove
E verlasting
N ot
T emporary
LENT acrostic poem
all that has happened
since the last time they bloomed
lilacs
cold – yet from this ground
daffodils will grow
again
morning light
forms part of a cross
on the wood wall
my faith completes
the picture
“morning light” is from my page, Morning light – Tanka (a sequence of poems).
March sunrise
shadows of trees
on cedar garage
tree branches
bowed to the ground
seemingly half-broken
covered with new leaves
my notebook of prayers
garden journal
through the seasons
every photo a prayer
“garden journal” was the Daily Haiku: Nov. 4, 2019 at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
Karl and I have seen many sparrows in our yard. I wondered about Winter birds in Wisconsin and discovered eek! Environmental Education for Kids, and their article, Winter Birds Birds found in Wisconsin over winter. I searched from the Wisconsin DNR site.
Then I thought of a poem:
small steps
one day at a time
sparrows in the yard
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 