Short Journal Poem

reading a book
I bought used
some time ago

words I need
today

Ellen Grace Olinger

gardens growing

gardens growing
long before we came here
how deep the roots
must be and decades old
planted in God’s earth

more colors of blue
in Lake Michigan today
than I can name
the wonder of always learning
dreaming new dreams

Ellen Grace Olinger

old and new
memories
grow together now
weeping willow trees
in Spring

Ellen Grace Olinger

tiny leaves
on trees
no prayer
in my heart
too small for God

Ellen Grace Olinger

how small the song
of an unknown bird
quiet memories

sunrise
daffodils bowed by rain
recover

after a warm day
and worth the wait
forsythia

I wonder
what today’s poem may be
lilacs in the wind

Ellen Grace Olinger

Honeysuckle blooms by Lake Michigan – June 2018

Peony – early July 2018

Lake Michigan – July 2017

Easter lily- April 2019

PHOTOS BY ELLEN GRACE OLINGER

From the 1600s Art Category at Reusable Art – Breathing New Life Into Old Art. I learn from the research notes and enjoy viewing the images. They add so much to my blogs.

I also included the Violets drawing
with a new poem, Grey Stillness,
at Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
(my primary site, which we began in December 2009).