Poetry – Journal Notes Blog

Daily Prompt – Monday, January 16, 2023

In what ways do you communicate online?
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I am grateful for our blogs with WordPress.com. Soon I will be creating new posts for Easter And Spring Poetry.

Think back on your most memorable road trip.
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Years ago, and for several years, I drove from our small town to the Milwaukee area (Wisconsin USA) to help with my mother’s care.

groceries for Mom
fresh flowers
always on the list

another year
has passed since
my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too

lily gardens
in January

I remember
their flowers
in July

and perhaps
because they
will bloom again

now is beautiful too

asked here and there
if we go South
for a time

we stay

seasons
snowdrops

Ellen Grace Olinger – January 25, 2018
POEMS FROM OOSTBURG, WISCONSIN

time with old friends
poems in a journal
from years ago

found an old journal
more blessings noted
than I knew

Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
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Perhaps both the same – reflections and remembrance, along with hope and plans for the future.

reading memoirs
and then the view
outside today

by Ellen Grace Olinger

All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press, 2019

As a creative note, interesting to see the history of a poem, sometimes over years.