Ellen Grace Olinger
after rain sun
in the garden
where green plants
still grow and today
begins anew
My new poem, after rain sun, is from Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin yesterday. You may also be interested to read and view Poems: Rain and Seasons from the same site. One example:
rain
on new seawall
built with limestone
from a Wisconsin
quarry
garden after rain
leaves on wood path
and red begonia
Ellen Grace Olinger
Creative Note:
I received the Fall 2021 Pinyon Review: Limited Edition, Hand-Sewn.
Susan Entsminger is Editor.
rereading Psalms
colors of leaves
a deeper gold
Ellen Grace Olinger
SMILE – No. 71, 2013
Welcome to tinywords 21.2 is a new post at TINYWORDS haiku & other small poems.
perhaps because
it is Autumn
I think of my mother
the season when
her last illness
began many years ago
and the trees
outside her hospital
window
I read to her
from the Psalms
and poets she would
know from long ago
and new poets too
most of all
I remember her faith
and unconditional love
that is with me still
From the Psalms:
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty:
neither do I exercise myself in great matters,
or in things too high for me.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,
as a child that is weaned of his mother:
my soul is even as a weaned child.
Psalm 131: 1 – 2
afternoon sun
fills the lamp
on a file cabinet
my study
where I have
read and prayed
through many years
I may read
from a book read
during a difficult time
and now years
have gone by
and I read again
with gratitude
and hope for today
and tomorrow
