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).

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).
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.
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
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks,
unto thee do we give thanks:
for that thy name is near
thy wondrous works declare.
Psalm 75: 1
reading a book
I bought used
some time ago
words that bless
today
Creative at home
Ellen Grace Olinger
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