Tag: Summer Poetry

July to August

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early morning
and as I watch
the dawn arrive

I look at the clock
and then the sky

time to watch
the light more closely

also the birch tree

which always offers
the first gold leaf
of the year

Ellen Grace Olinger
July 30, 2017

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July Poem from 2015

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interesting
how a day
can begin
one way
and then change
suddenly
skies are dark
power is lost
for a moment
rain . . .

and then
I open a window
a little
raindrops
glisten

and the same
birds sing again

Ellen Grace Olinger

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Summer poems

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Drawing from Reusable Art

tree with full leaves
providing shade
comfort of faith

loved for years
and now I know your name
blue chicory

wearing
my old sweater
worn thin
Queen Anne’s Lace
along country roads

Poems by Ellen Grace Olinger

“tree with full leaves”
Time of Singing poetry journal
Summer 2012

“loved for years”
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Daily Haiku: May 27, 2017

I reprinted “wearing” at Large Print Poems. The post there was on August 8, 2020. My tanka was published at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog on October 17, 2020.

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