poems seen
that did not
get written
frost painting
on the side door
Poem from February 13, 2013
Category: Tanka
Three Poems
These poems were reprinted in the anthology, 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 will share my poems again here in the same sequence as published in the book. I am grateful. The editor included the credit for our blog, and the dates, if readers wish to visit. The anthology is a print book, available from Amazon.
small green plant
in the sunroom
Earth Day
Spring poetry
journals in the mail
new season of art
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
April 27, 2021; 2014
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
sometimes many years
What are the pros and cons of procrastination?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 27, 2023
sometimes
many years
needed to write
a poem
in a few minutes
December 2014 and November 2021
Light and Seasons
What is a song or poem that speaks to you and why?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 25, 2023
summer evening
quiet music and
a few Psalms
new evergreen growth
still in the sun
The day is thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
Psalm 74: 16-17 (KJV)
Post from July 28, 2022
Many verses from the Psalms – the light and seasons today.
Poems and Seasons
What color describes your personality and why?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 19, 2023
The colors of the seasons are beautiful. And with blogs, I learn more about colors and design. One day a bright color, another day grey.
spring colors
poetry journals and books
on a brown tablecloth
May 2022
bluebirds
truly so blue
trustworthy friends
June 2012
morning light
trees in sun
and blue sky
February 2022
forsythia
by the garage
and cedar fence
green and yellow
in the day’s light
by Ellen Grace Olinger
I am reading Luci Shaw’s new book, Angels Everywhere: Poems (2022, Paraclete Press). I have been reading her poetry and prose for decades. Luci Shaw The Official Website (Post from May 19, 2022.)
Memory and Poetry
Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 16, 2023
shoveling . . .
scent of mint
through snow
Time of Singing
25th Anniversary Volume
1998
reading poetry
my coffee gets cold
guess I made it
for the fragrance
Time of Singing
Volume 43, “Intermezzo”
Fall 2016
fragrance of leaves
in the gardens
what good friends
we became
as we grew older
“fragrance of leaves” is a poem from 2010 that has been reprinted a few times.
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.
Tanka by Ellen Grace Olinger, at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog, August 8, 2020.
Bloganuary Prompt for January 11, 2023
How do you define success?
December 19, 2022 – 13 years since we began Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin. Blogs are a wonderful way to learn and create. I am growing older here, and grateful every day.
And Bloganuary again this year.
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