Ellen Grace Olinger
books and music
from over the years
live on these shelves
even if I don’t
reread or listen again
somehow their
healing influence
is in these words
I enjoyed donating some boxes of books and poetry journals this year, and plan a Christmas donation with a few music CDs.
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.
reading
on a Sunday afternoon
I remember poems
about the language arts
R est
E ducate
A dmire
D ream
I nspire
N ew
G oals
READING
L ove of literature
I nspires countless
B eautiful hours of
R eading many
A uthors, and sometimes
R ereading beloved books
Y early
LIBRARY
WestWard Quarterly, Fall 2018
reading haiku
the generous new growth
of evergreens
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Daily Haiku: June 21, 2019
older now
used books settle
in their new home
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019)
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV
Poems are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
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This post continues the ideas from my previous post, thoughts of a friend.
These are a few of my haiku that were published by Time of Singing poetry journal. Charles A. Waugaman was editor for years, and now Lora Homan Zill has been editor for years. There are also Contributing Editors.
old photos
on my desk —
bleeding hearts in bloom
Time of Singing, 1994
sudden cold —
Christmas cactus
already blooming
Time of Singing, 1997
Quiet Christmas Poetry
(a site and large print chapbook)
shoveling . . .
scent of mint
through snow
Time of Singing
25th Anniversary Volume, 1998
sometimes by sight
in my life of faith
apple trees in bloom
Time of Singing, 2014
Poems in this post are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
I am also grateful to the many artists who add color and beauty to my posts.
Thank you.
thoughts of a friend
who always loved and grew
I wonder . . . Has the sky
ever been this beautiful a blue?
for Charles A. Waugaman (1932 – 2010)
Time of Singing poetry journal
Spring 2011
As with Modern Haiku, I learned of Time of Singing from a Poet’s Market book years ago. Charles was editor of Time Of Singing at that time, and published my haiku and other poems. Grateful to all.
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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