mild December day
pheasants in the fields
apples still on some trees
poems to write
many books yet to read
December 2011
mild December day
Tag: History of a Poem
November Acrostic Poem
N ovember
O pens to blue skies
V ery cold weather soon to
E ndure, yet many
M oments of
B eauty to
E xperience
R enewal each day
NOVEMBER
Poem from November 2011 – Poems from Oostburg, Wisconsin.
Reprinted this year at My Acrostic Poems.
names and addresses
names and addresses
for dear friends
no longer on earth
old address book
not yet written
in the overflowing book
cards and envelopes
with last known
addresses
still wanting to remember
what may no longer
be current – places I was
people I knew
Time of Singing Spring 2018
“not yet written” and “still wanting to remember” were also published in All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019). Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press; West Union, WV.
Psalms to pray
Psalms to pray
and poems to read
sun on seawalls
Ellen Grace Olinger
October 2021
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
Dawn Returns
The Haiku Society of America
2022 Members’ Anthology
John J. Han, Editor
Haiku Society of America, New York
sun fades
sun fades
art on walls
and prints
on bookcases
in frames or
held in place
by some small
treasure
I take care
to preserve
yet also like
the thought
that in a way
each is then
unique to this
time and place
October 2019 and April 2015
Images: wpclipart
reading memoirs
reading memoirs
and then the view
outside today
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
February 23, 2015
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press, 2019
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 