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
sometimes many years
Tag: Poems
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.
Questions
What could you do less of?
Daily Prompt
A related question might be, What is most important?
OLD POEM
writing and reading
I don’t see the dust
then seeing
I remember
and know He does not forget
and understands
with Love
Psalm 103: 14 (KJV)
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth we are dust.
Ellen Grace Olinger
Light: Poems
Psalms to pray
and poems to read
sun on seawalls
reading old letters
reflections of Christmas lights
on the water
small study
and books to read
days with longer light
Publication Credits
Psalms to pray:
Dawn Returns The Haiku Society of America
2022 Members’ Anthology
John J. Han, Editor
Haiku Society of America, New York
reading old letters:
Quiet Christmas Poetry (our site and chapbook)
small study:
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2022
Robin White, Editor
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
May 10, 2022
Our Garden: The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthology 2022
edited by Jim Kacian & Julie Bloss Kelsey
The Haiku Foundation, Winchester VA
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
seasons repeat
seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given
August 17, 2014
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
Mayfly, 58, Winter 2015
Brooks Books Haiku
tinywords
4 September 2015
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Daily Haiku: April 2, 2016
The Signature Haiku Anthology, Including Senryu and Tanka.
Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press, 2020.
Review 2022 Posts:
Ellen Grace Olinger
Acrostic Poems: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
S eason of
U plifting
M usings and
M emories
E ternally
R eal
SUMMER
A dore with no need for a moment to
U nderstand this beauty
T rust and
U nderline with words, painting, photo . . . this
M oment
N ow and always
AUTUMN
W onderful time of
I nspiration and
N ew books
T o
E njoy
R eading
WINTER
S pring
P romises
R enewal
I nspiration and
N ew
G rowth
SPRING
Poems by Ellen Grace Olinger
Images from wpclipart
only now beginning
only now beginning
to find my place and poems
late-blooming rose
from the bush planted
long before we came here
August 2010
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 