February light
on the trees
easy to imagine
their new growth
in Spring


February light
on the trees
easy to imagine
their new growth
in Spring
M arvel at and
U nderstand the
S easons a little more
E ach year
beauty of trees
shaped by the wind
and seasons
another year
has passed since
my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too
Time of Singing poetry journal, edited by Lora Zill, has a new site. This print journal was one of the first to publish my poems, and I am grateful. Today I am reading the Winter 2020/21 issue (Volume 47, Number 3).
Here is an early poem.
birds perch
in sheltering branches
a grain of mustard seed
Matthew 13: 31–32 inspired my poem.
Published by Time of Singing (1995).
Poem by Ellen Grace Olinger
sunrise . . .
some water
for the chrysanthemum
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Published by hedgerow #133, a journal of small poems,
autumn 2020. Caroline Skanne is editor.