Ellen Grace Olinger
old and new
memories grow together
Spring flowers and trees
lily of the valley
fragrance of forgiveness
memories of love
losses in life
low setting sun
through branches of trees
now rises again
as birds quietly sing
Sunday rest
prayers and gifts
of Winter with
new hope
for Spring
praying the Psalms
and reading poetry
books and journals
I write new poems
about everyday life
Ellen Grace Olinger
Carol enjoyed the blogs and sharing her work with many readers. This is a post we created at Haiku Art Site for October 28, 2015.
Before the service –
an oriole carries my thoughts to God
and back
The first hymn –
we sing our way
into harmony
Prayer before soup
we unclasp our hands
to break bread
Driving away
whether or not to go home
by the usual road
Haiku by Carol Purington
Reprinted with her permission
All Rights Reserved
You may also wish to visit Carol’s poetry page at Woodslawn Farm.
Please read Carol Purington’s Quiet Optimism by Michael Dylan Welch at Graceguts.
Woodslawn Farm is Carol’s family website. There is information about Carol’s new book, Farm Song.
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.
new year sunrise
light fills
the red poinsettia
spruce tree branches
by the windows
each day a painting
WestWard Quarterly, Winter 2021.
Shirley Anne Leonard is the Editor, and Dr. Richard Leonard is the Publisher.
CREATIVE NOTE: I am honored and grateful that two of my haiku appear in the new WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading. The magazine is published from Hamilton, Illinois, USA. Their readers and poets are international. My name there is written as Dr. Ellen G. Olinger. In 1987, I earned the Doctor of Education degree from Northern Illinois University. Thank you.
M arvel at and
U nderstand the
S easons a little more
E ach year
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