Category: Grief

late May garden

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late May garden
in the early morning
a time I know well
colors of primroses
and forget me nots
ferns grow tall

today

plants grow
in the gardens
gifts from those
who were here before
and bless today

Memorial Day 2022

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Vintage Fern Drawing is courtesy of Reusable Art.

Lilacs: Four Poems

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Karen’s Whimsy

I wonder
what today’s poem may be
lilacs in the wind

memories of neighbors
and their gardens
lilacs

knowing
they cannot stay
but will return
lilacs

ancient lilacs
cover the graves
Memorial Day

“ancient lilacs” was published in SMILE (edited/published by Joyce M. Johnson); and Humoresque (for the United Amateur Press Association of America, edited/published by Jean Calkins).

Reprinted here first on May 26, 2010.

Karen’s Whimsy

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Daily writing prompt for May 4, 2023

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Daily writing prompt
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

The Psalms have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

This is a haiku from July 24, 2012, and other posts over the years.

Deep calleth unto deep *
filling my heart with hope
greater than my mind

* The first line of my poem is from Psalm 42: 7 (KJV).

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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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