August days go by
new light in the kitchen
flowers bloom and then rest
know they will return
only now beginning
I thought only now beginning could be a new series. Every day a gift.
August days go by
Category: Heart Poems
new poem
The Psalms
on a Monday morning
and always in my heart
summer study window view
trees and blue sky stillness
New poem today at POEMS FROM PSALMS AND NATURE
Creative Note: Bloganuary Challenge 2022
I created a Page for Bloganuary 2022. The Pages for this blog are filed under MENU.
The page is a work-in-progress. I plan to create an index for my posts for the Bloganuary 2022 challenge. I mention that readers can also view my Archive for Month: January 2022.
The Index will take time, and also will be a good structure for review – one or two posts at a time. I may write some new poems.
Thank you to The Team at WordPress.com – and everyone for the inspiration and encouragement.
predawn
and watching
the sky grow light
gift of another day
to read and write
books on the shelf
supported by each other
kindness of friends
Ellen Grace Olinger
Two February Poems
beloved country roads
the images that went
past my mind and
to my soul
now old friends
and around the bend
seagulls rise
from corn stubble
Winter fields
a new week . . .
sky the color
of overnight
snowfall
white and green branches
stillness of evergreens
Bloganuary prompt for January 14, 2022
Write about a challenge you faced and overcame.
taking turns
letting each other go
only to learn again
how love grows,
Mother
love for you
became her care
until she joined you there
grief gives way to fields and wind
and now I hear your voice again
P romises of
S erenity
A nd
L ove
M editations and
S trength
PSALMS acrostic poem
Wait on the LORD:
be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart:
wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalm 27: 14
My first two poems in this post were published by Bell’s Letters.
Ellen Grace Olinger
Heart Poems – 2
Poems to follow my Bloganuary: January 8, 2022 post and Heart Poems post. Thank you.
old photos
on my desk —
bleeding hearts in bloom
seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given
more memories
sometimes than
my heart can hold
I select one or two
write a poem
reading a book
on a rainy day
peace in my heart
sometimes we know
a scene so well
we can see and hear
with our hearts
seawall seasons
Publication Credits:
“old photos” was published first in Time Of Singing (1994). Also reprinted with the poems selected for my Poet Profile at The Haiku Foundation. Billie Wilson was editor and helped me with my Profile.
“seasons repeat” has found many homes, including:
* Mayfly, 58, Winter 2015 – Brooks Books Haiku
* tinywords – 4 September 2015
* Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog – Daily Haiku: April 2, 2016
* Also selected for my Poet Profile at The Haiku Registry, The Haiku Foundation.
* The Signature Haiku Anthology, Including Senryu and Tanka. Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press, 2020.
Some poems are gifts.
Ellen Grace Olinger
Heart Poems
Poems to follow my Bloganuary: January 8, 2022 post.
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).
another year
has passed since
my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too
tiny leaves
on trees
no prayer
in my heart
too small for God
early hours
of quiet and poetry
gardens overflow
and if some Winter
my mind forgets
my heart will know
“tiny leaves” is from my blog and reprinted last year:
Micro-poem by Ellen Grace Olinger – May 1, 2021
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 