seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given
by Ellen Grace Olinger
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.
The Academy of American Poets began National Poetry Month in April 1996.
small study
and books to read
days with longer light
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Akitsu Quarterly
Spring 2022
Robin White, Editor
poetry journals
arrive in the mail
there is news
of writers I have
read for years
a poem, an essay,
a book review
sometimes an obituary
and a new generation
of writers also grows
perhaps visual art
as well as the words
photos, paintings,
cover art, credits
I read as I can
some of the print
seems small now
and I wait for the sun
and always am grateful
I look at my shelves, and what has been there for a time; and I have not read this book or that journal. Then I wonder why – what was happening then? And I remember, and maybe had read a poem or two, or a page or two, and was helped and blessed.
late Fall
and Winter soon
plans for silence
and time to read
poetry
I am reading poems from Time Of Singing, Volume 48 Number 2, Summer 2021. Lora Homan Zill is the Editor. Ken Gibble is the Contributing Editor for this issue. The photography is by Bobbie Rochow. Wind & Water Press is the publisher, from Conneaut Lake, PA.
These are some of my Fall poems that were published by Time Of Singing (TOS).
how gentle the wind
in predawn rose light
after the harvest moon
I begin October
with small and growing hopes
TOS, Fall 2012
late November
sun fills a glass
for a time
TOS, Fall 2013
my large print Bible
rests on the Thanksgiving tray
the bread of life
reading poetry
my coffee gets cold
guess I made it
for the fragrance
TOS, Fall 2016
Ellen Grace Olinger
September days
large bouquet
of chrysanthemums
from the store
this time
Karl and I went to Walmart in Sheboygan yesterday, and then enjoyed a meal at home.
Today I am reading from books I ordered from different small presses. I often read book reviews in journals.
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 