2022 National Poetry Month – Journal Notes Blog

Haiku Diary: Last Week In April

Monday
early morning
bird songs

Tuesday
some time for poems
from Spring journals

Wednesday
old trees and sunrise
by Lake Michigan

Thursday
April days go by
snowdrops grow and bloom

Friday
light begins
in the sky

And today:

small flowers
and poems
snowdrops

Primrose and daylily plants are beginning to grow in our garden. April flowers are snowdrops – these small flowers and they still bloom.

last week in April
and music is new
bird songs

clouds and grey sky
yet for a moment
evergreens at sunrise

sunrise
clouds and enough
light for this day

small study
and books to read
days with longer light

daylight
Norway Spruce tree
covered with snow

“small study” was published by Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2022.

Poems by Ellen Grace Olinger

writing and reading
I don’t see the dust . . .
then seeing I remember

and know He does not forget

and understands with Love

For he knoweth our frame;
he remembereth we are dust.

Psalm 103: 14 (KJV)

praying the Psalms
and reading poetry
books and journals
I write new poems
about everyday life