peaceful time
with my blogs
remembrance
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Christmas Haiku by Carol Purington is a new post at Haiku Art Site.
And as I wrote there:
Three New Books by Carol Purington is a beautiful post by her family at Woodslawn Farm. She asked her family to complete this work for her. Excellent work by all.
Please visit Woodslawn Farm for more information.
Carol enjoyed sharing her poetry in many ways. This is a post we created at Haiku Art Site for January 27, 2016.
Snowflakes falling
on my head and on yours
we are not strangers
Prayer before soup
we unclasp our hands
to break bread
Leafless tree
its branches full
of setting sun
Haiku by Carol Purington
Reprinted with her permission
All Rights Reserved
Please visit Woodslawn Farm for more information.
Posts in this series for Carol:
There is information about Carol’s new book, Farm Song, at Woodslawn Farm “A Seventh Generation Family Farm in Colrain, Massachusetts.” You can also learn more about her books at her Poetry page. Her family links to her page on Amazon and provides more information.
Morning Song Poems for New Parents, Edited by Susan Todd and Carol Purington, was published in 2011 by St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan, in New York.
Previous post in this new series for Carol:
Creative Note in Memory: Carol Purington (1949 – 2020)
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Please read Carol Purington’s Quiet Optimism by Michael Dylan Welch at Graceguts.
You can read poems from Carol Purington’s Archive at Mann Library’s Daily Haiku Featuring one guest author per month, which is edited by Tom Clausen.
Woodslawn Farm is her family website.
Carol and I corresponded for years, and she enjoyed the blogs. I will share more of her work over time.
I enjoyed reading Carol Purington’s recent posts at Woodslawn Farm.
Carol writes wonderful haiku and tanka, and has published several books.
The vintage drawing is courtesy of Reusable Art. I refer to this site often.
Carol Purington has a nice collection of poems for March 2015 on the home page of her family site, Woodslawn Farm. Her poetry page there has information about her many excellent books. She writes beautiful haiku and tanka.
With Carol’s permission, I reprinted some of her haiku from Family Farm here in March 2010. This sequence of her poems is for Holy Week and Easter.
So far below zero
even the blackbirds have left
this colorless world–
the Christmas candle
throws a circle of light
***
Caroling house to house
hands cold in fleecy mittens–
words of peace
ring out from shaky voices
to touch a steady star
By Carol Purington
Published here with her kind permission. All Rights Reserved.
Update, 12/19/2012: Here is the link to Carol’s poetry page at her family website. You’ll find more poems and information about her books. http://www.woodslawnfarm.com/p/poetry.html
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 