Category: Poetry

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.

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Karen’s Whimsy Public Domain Images

books and music

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books and music
from over the years
live on these shelves

even if I don’t
reread or listen again

somehow their
healing influence
is in these words

by Ellen Grace Olinger

The Haiku Way To Healing: Illness, Injury and Pain (Including Senryu, Tanka and Haiga). Edited by Robert Epstein, 2022. Middle Island Press, West Union, WV.

I reprinted my three poems from this anthology on February 2, 2023.

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A poem about our home library goes well with my haiku yesterday about books from our Oostburg Public Library 

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Pair of Daisies and Tulip Garden are courtesy of Reusable Art.