poems and photos

March begins
shape of sun on my desk
a placemat for my lamp

near the garage
on a cold March day
bird songs

soon the garden
will begin in small ways
snowdrops

Poems by Ellen Grace Olinger

reading poetry

reading poetry
and watching
a vase of flowers
change
how beautiful
the fading
pink roses

A few petunias
snapdragons, gold and white mums
the robins are gone.

Holding in my heart
as days become cold and dark
robins will return.

PEGASUS (1994)

Ellen Grace Olinger

Prayer plant
awakening

so quiet

I listen

Published in HUMMINGBIRD, Magazine of the Short Poem (2001).

Ellen Grace Olinger

L ove
E xpressed
T ranscending
T ime
E verlasting
R emembrance of
S ouls

I wrote this poem in 2010.

Gerbera Daisy Plant – August 2016

Ellen Grace Olinger

And so my soul
Spills over
Into print again
As the sun spills
Over flowers
And the neighborhood
Sleeps

Endurance is eloquent
And marigolds are
Admirable because
They bloom
So long

Oh, my heart
Is tender
Yet God keeps it
Strong
And so my soul
Spills over
Into print again

Ellen Grace Olinger

Published by Time of Singing (1991).

summer
early sun fills
a bouquet of flowers

summer sun
thrift store bowl painted
with leaves and fruit

Haiku are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin