Ellen Grace Olinger
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it?
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We live in Wisconsin, the Midwest, USA. I am grateful to be home now, my favorite place. We live by Lake Michigan in a small town. I love to watch the light through the days and seasons, and our perennial gardens.
rest and read
on a rainy day
say the books
by my chair
country roads
signs of change
in the landscape
and sky
yard overgrown
with plants
for bees
and butterflies
so much can wait
one step at a time
so much gets done
September 2019
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And so my soul
Spills over
Into print again
As the sun spills
Over flowers
And the neighborhood
Sleeps
Endurance is eloquent
And marigolds are
Admirable because
They bloom
So long
Oh, my heart
Is tender
Yet God keeps it
Strong
And so my soul
Spills over
Into print again
Ellen Grace Olinger
Published by Time of Singing poetry Journal, 1991.
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Three Poems From The Archives
tree branches
bowed to the ground
seemingly half-broken
covered with new leaves
my notebook of prayers
March 2017
answers to prayers
I did not know to pray
verses of Psalms
April 2017
as if they could
store the sun
small blankets
on a chair
add color to
the scene
as they await
to warm
another time
June 2017
early morning
light on an old painting
in a new place
by Ellen Grace Olinger
My poem was published by hedgerow: a journal of small poems #136, 2021, edited by Caroline Skanne. Reprinted at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
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