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.
The Haiku Foundation has a new site design.
New to Haiku: How to Connect With Other Poets on The Haiku Foundation Website is a new post by Julie Bloss Kelsey, who is the Secretary of The Haiku Foundation.
M arvel at and
U nderstand the
S easons a little more
E ach year
beauty of trees
shaped by the wind
and seasons
late January
new snow on a tree
by the window
