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Tag: Libraries
another year
another year
has passed since
my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too
Creative Note
I received the new Pinyon Review from Pinyon Publishing.
This issue is Number 17, Spring 2020.
“Limited Edition, Hand-Sewn.”
Susan Entsminger is Editor.
reading a book
reading a book
I bought used
some time ago
words that bless
today
Creative at home
Ellen Grace Olinger
Meditation: Books and Journals
I look at the books and journals in our home and am grateful. There is a wide selection: poetry, memoirs, novels, books discarded by libraries, books from thrift stores, books given as gifts. Poets I’ve read for decades, and new poets in journals and who post on their blogs.
Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings, by Joni Mitchell, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019; and is a beautiful book. She wrote a forward in May 2019. And she is as grateful as ever.
Poetry called to me from the Psalms, and the hymns, from church. Then when I was young I heard Joni Mitchell, and other artists. I could write too!
Monday afternoon
in March
sun fills a bookcase
from my father
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we hold the door
we hold the door
for older people
memories of Mom
My poem was published in the book They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).
Photos in my post today are courtesy of wpclipart.
Ellen Grace Olinger
sun rests
sun rests
on a small plant
then an empty
wood chair
I read
library books
one page
at a time
Ellen Grace Olinger
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