Tag: Poems from my archives

Garden Colors

This morning I saw a red cardinal and the yellow forsythia by the garage. This afternoon, the cardinal visited the birch tree branch outside my study window.

POEMS From My Archives

time for lunch
cardinals by a pumpkin
in the garden

January 7, 2021

colors change
throughout the day

blue jays on branches
in the lilac bush
just beginning

red cardinal in evergreens

almost every day
I wonder what poems
may appear
what I may write

interesting what may
catch my attention

who or what says

“I am the poem this day”

I only know what touches
my heart and soul . . .

May 12, 2015

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books and music

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

Ellen Grace Olinger, 2014

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Garden journal: haiku and photos

garden journal
through the seasons
every photo a prayer

Today I am looking through my photo archives for April and May.

My poem was the Daily Haiku: Nov. 4, 2019 at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.

April 2017 – Hyacinth from a store
May 2015 – Hosta grow again by the birch tree.
May 2016 – Forsythia blooms, peonies and daylilies grow.
May 2017 – near the garage

Ellen Grace Olinger

Short Poems for APRIL

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A  ppreciate
P  oetry
R  ead and write
I  nspire and
L  isten

APRIL

April is National Poetry Month – 25 years!

April in Wisconsin
on opposite sides
of the patio door
the red poinsettia
and red cardinal

2012

years on the roads
pass through my mind
returning home
and in the yard
first tulip leaves

2013

beginning
in the area
where we had
to take a tree down
new peony leaves

2014

colorful tulips
on a cold day
unconditional love

2015

Ellen Grace Olinger

Daffodils soon – April 2016

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Lake Michigan – Easter 2017

snow melting
from evergreen branches
Easter lily by a sunny window
Poinsettia too
all part of one story

April 2019

grey sky
mourning dove
on a birch tree branch

time with the Psalms
a dove on the branch
pictures a poem

April 2020

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Poems are by Ellen Grace Olinger.

slowed down

how patiently

we wait
for one another

at the intersections
on the roads

in the store
at the check-out

slowed down

grateful for
this day

From my archives: July 2013
Ellen Grace Olinger

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these wood walls

these wood walls
shelter and add
so much beauty
to this cold day

and all days

others have lived
here too these
past decades

today I wonder
about the other
stories . . .

when the
trees were young

and grew tall
long before
I was born

and then became
this house and

they still seem
alive to me

from January 2015

Ellen Grace Olinger

two poems and photos

gardens in winter
the serene snowfall
and remembering
where snowdrops
will bloom

a new sunrise
by God’s grace
many second chances
in this long lovely
life of faith

Ellen Grace Olinger, from my archives

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