Category: Language Arts

Bloganuary Prompt: January 3, 2023

What is the earliest memory you have? Language Arts. Words and books.

This inspires me to review my stats. My acrostic poem for reading continues to be the most read poem, after Home page/Archives.

R  est
E  ducate
A  dmire
D  ream
I  nspire
N  ew
G  oals

READING

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Saturday morning

Saturday morning
day begins early
and in a quiet way
from prayers to plans
for kitchen work today

And I remember this poem:

peaceful morning
a prayer from childhood
still with me

Published in Bundled Wildflowers, Haiku Society of America 2020 Members’ Anthology. Bryan Rickert, Editor. The Daily Haiku: Nov. 10, 2020 at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.

Haiku Society of America site

(Post from November 2021)

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WestWard Quarterly Spring 2022

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.