Sunday rest
prayers and gifts
of winter with
new hope
for spring


Sunday rest
prayers and gifts
of winter with
new hope
for spring
old songs
that are ever-new
Spring soon
spruce tree branches
by the windows
each day a painting
Ellen Grace Olinger
WestWard Quarterly, Winter 2021
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?
Daily writing prompt
reading poetry
from another time
the newness
of another cycle
of seasons
Ellen Grace Olinger
February 2013 and January 2023
Haiku Art Site
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?
Daily Prompt
I love the language arts – both work and play for me.
W onderful time of
I nspiration and
N ew books
T o
E njoy
R eading
WINTER
some light begins
with clouds in the sky
winter morning
early morning
holiday lilies
in sunroom light
cup from a thrift store
on my grandmother’s
straw chest
near the window
fills with light