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.
late January
new snow on a tree
by the window
another year
has passed since
my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too
The Psalms Series 2020: A Summary is a new post at Poems From Psalms And Nature.
Here is part of what I wrote:
“The Psalms series this year is one of the projects I think of first, as I reflect upon 2020. The idea was simple: post short selections from the 150 Psalms, with pictures. I worked with the King James Version of the Bible. My study of short poetry forms inspired my presentation for some of the verses.
My thought was that readers can do their own research from here, if they wish. I did not assume that someone already knew the Psalms.
The series was from March 2020 – July 2020. This fall, I worked to summarize the content in different ways.”
Then the post includes the various ways I tried to summarize the series.
God be merciful unto us, and bless us;
and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
That thy way may be known upon earth,
thy saving health among all nations.
Psalm 67: 1 – 2
time with a book
light reaches my chair
through trees
late November
warmth of sunlight
on my desk chair
all a day can hold
sun and shadows
on the wood window frame
above my desk
in my small study
new light
in my study
waterfall
Ellen Grace Olinger
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
