turning the vase

turning the vase
of flowers
learning
there are
more roses

Published by Bell’s Letters Poet, some time ago.

only now beginning

only now beginning
late-blooming rose
on the bush planted
long before
we came here

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

old roses
now in bloom
a few petals fall
from the blue vase
caught by a poem

Published in SMILE, 2011.

Ellen Grace Olinger

pg49-1

quiet life
the only life
I can live
want to live

wild roses
and windmills
on country roads

pg51-49-1a

roses_BW_clipart roses in the sun
some ending
some beginning
and some in full bloom
good to grow older

roses_BW_clipart