Photo by Karl – August 2012
Ellen Grace Olinger – August 2019
Photo by Karl – August 2018
Photo by Karl – August 2018
Tag: Haiku Photos
Garden Photo
Birch tree shadows on new daylilies
Light and shadows
Grateful for our yard, some warmth
New green plants and the daylilies will bloom in summer.
Thought I would try and begin again with the camera. See what photos are given as I simply observe in the yard. Haiku photos.
Ellen Grace Olinger
April 20, 2020
Haiku Photos at Home
These are more photos from my archives to share again. As I type, I think of haiku. A smaller form – or space – can lead to new ideas.
I read a lot, sometimes aloud. Many authors. Then perhaps I am more likely to think of a better word for a small poem.
The news, and then I see a cardinal in the yard. Daffodils and daylilies are beginning to grow, the early beginnings of new green.
These photos include treasures from thrift stores. I call some of my photos HAIKU PHOTOS.
Ellen Grace Olinger
September Trail
Interurban Trail, Town of Holland
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
September 8, 2019
Photos by Karl
Poem and Garden Journal Photos
The following poem was published first in MIDWEST POETRY REVIEW, in 1994.
PSALM 20
There are days
when everything seems a metaphor…
I persist with a bottle of salad dressing
that won’t open
Touch the childhood scar on my forehead
now blended with a wrinkle
Am comforted by cards and letters
sent at just the right time
Gaze at the blue heron who stayed
long into the Fall
And marvel at the migrating monarchs
on their way.
I ponder the limits of persistence
for the heron left one day
And feel wounds aging into wisdom
although scars do stay
Recognize “help from the sanctuary”
and read Psalm 20 once again
In wonder at these days when
everything seems a metaphor…
New dreams were growing all along
And would be tested true
I finally flew to embrace them too.
These are Garden Journal photos from a few past years. Some poems and photos are gifts. Perhaps I can call them FOUND ART. I also think of them as HAIKU PHOTOS.
September 2015
October 2015
November 2016 – I loved seeing the natural arrangements of leaves on the blue tarp Karl had on his trailer.
December 2018 – Cedar siding of garage
Poem and photos are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
Poems and Photo
rarely at your grave —
geranium blooms freely
on your workshop stool
Modern Haiku, Fall 1996
Ellen Olinger – Three Questions Series, 2010
Edited by Curtis Dunlap
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Daily Haiku: July 11, 2017
paintings of trees
on old pine walls
quiet music
Four Hundred and Two Snails
Haiku Society of America
Members’ Anthology 2018
Nicholas M. Sola, Editor
cross-stitch from the
grandmother I didn’t meet:
“Put the coffee on”
Parnassus Literary Journal (2004)
Ellen Olinger – Three Questions, haiku series edited by Curtis Dunlap.
My haiku was also posted on March 29, 2015, as part of the Daily Haiku series at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
willows weep and yet
how strong the branches
that hold their tears
Deep calleth unto deep . . .*
filling my heart with hope
greater than my mind
* from Psalm 42: 7 (KJV)
Poems and photo are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
Coleus
August 9, 2019
Ellen Grace Olinger
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 