they know our seasons
in Wisconsin well
robins and snowdrops
today
March colors
and melted snow
cardinal by a pumpkin
melted snow
pumpkins from last fall
almost gone


they know our seasons
in Wisconsin well
robins and snowdrops
today
March colors
and melted snow
cardinal by a pumpkin
melted snow
pumpkins from last fall
almost gone
Today I am reading the new WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading. Shirley Anne Leonard is the Editor, and Dr. Richard Leonard is the Publisher.
Two of my poems that have been published in this print magazine:
spruce tree branches
by the windows
each day a painting
Winter 2021
L ove of literature
I nspires countless
B eautiful hours of
R eading many
A uthors, and sometimes
R ereading beloved books
Y early
LIBRARY
Fall 2018
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
Time Of Singing Spring 2022 begins Volume 49 for this poetry journal. The Editor is Lora Homan Zill. The Contributing Editor for this issue is H. Edgar Hix.
I have subscribed for years. Two of my first haiku:
old photos
on my desk —
bleeding hearts in bloom
Time Of Singing, 1994
birds perch
in sheltering branches
a grain of mustard seed
Matthew 13: 31 – 32
Time Of Singing, 1995
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
Some pictures for my April poem yesterday, from wpclipart. And “we followed the song” may inspire another poem.
early April
and warm enough
for rain
My poems in this post are from my 2012 Archives.
A ppreciate
P oetry
R ead and write
I nspire and
L isten!
Acrostic poem for APRIL
Winter becomes Spring
once again
poetry
sunset becomes night
dawn, then day
poetry
despair becomes hope
once again
poetry
the mind settles
into a new peace
poetry
words find their
shape on a page
poetry
The Academy of American Poets began National Poetry Month in April 1996.