almost autumn
moving my recliner
closer to new sun
September 12, 2012
almost autumn
today I have
an appointment
with the light and books
in my small study
September 15, 2022
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
Category: Tanka
another summer
another summer
art on the wall
by someone
long ago still
speaks to me
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
May 31, 2014
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
A Daily Journal of Japanese Short-Form Poetry
June 6, 2022
For my review, I thought “another summer” would follow the previous two poems I posted well: paintings of trees and spruce tree branches.
I also want to mention my Poet Profile at The Haiku Foundation Haiku Registry. I served as a volunteer in Education.
Thank you
Ellen Grace Olinger
Fragrance of Leaves
fragrance of leaves
in the gardens
what good friends
we became
as we grew older
“fragrance of leaves” is from my post for November 12, 2010.
And also published in a print book, print journal, and online.
They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku. Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press, 2017.
Time Of Singing – Volume 46, Fall 2019
Lora Homan Zill, Editor
Tanka by Ellen Grace Olinger
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
August 8, 2020
So including today, the publication dates for this poem so far are from 2010 – 2022.
Thank you
Creative Note: Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
These are a few of my poems that have been published at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog. Many writers are featured, and I am grateful.
reading haiku
the generous new growth
of evergreens
loved for years
and now I know your name
blue chicory
wearing
my old sweater
worn thin
Queen Anne’s Lace
along country roads
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
You may also be interested to read the responses for Charlotte’s edited post, Leading Lives with Purpose through Reading and Writing Haiku & Senryu.
if I could read
if I could read
every book
in my small library
I would then
begin again
Two Butterfly Poems
Karl saw a monarch butterfly yesterday, in the yard.
home from mailing
poetry notes
monarch butterfly
greets me
at the back door
A poem from my archives, and reprinted at Poems For Bulletin Boards.
bright sunny day
and steadily they go by . . .
monarchs flying south
As Karl said, “Their epic journey.”
This was September 17, 2014.
August Poems
late summer garden
and the lake in sun
blessings of friendship
August 11, 2014
late summer
one daylily blooms
in the garden
August 17, 2015
after the storm
bird on a branch
of the broken tree
August 29, 2018
Saturday afternoon
yellow flowers
on a table in the sun
August 24, 2019
late August
and still Summer
bees and goldenrod
by a sunny window
on a quiet morning
August 30, 2021
WestWard Quarterly, Summer 2022
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 