reading the poets

reading the poets
of my parents’
generation
their voices
return

Ellen Grace Olinger

SMILE, 2010

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).

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paintings of trees

paintings of trees
on old pine walls
quiet music

Ellen Grace Olinger

Published in Four Hundred and Two Snails, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2018, edited by Nicholas M. Sola.

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Favorite Old Poem

PETALS ON WOOD

The daylilies in the vase
Are ending

Petals drop on wood

I leave them
They express something poignant

That words never could.

Poem by Ellen Grace Olinger
ARTS ALIVE: A LITERARY REVIEW (1988)
The Tinley Park – Park District
Illinois – The Midwest, United States

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Creative At Home

time with old friends
poems in a journal

from years ago

I enjoy blogs and also time with various print journals and books.

Ellen Grace Olinger

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