What’s your favorite thing to cook?
Daily writing prompt
One of my favorite meals is rice with kale or spinach. Healthy foods in general, with gratitude.
daily grace
rice cooked
for the weekend
dishes washed
and light in my study
February light
February light
on the trees
easy to imagine
their new growth
in spring
reading poetry
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?
Daily writing prompt
reading poetry
from another time
the newness
of another cycle
of seasons
Ellen Grace Olinger
February 2013 and January 2023
Haiku Art Site
Our winters are long and yet the light . . .
Our winters are long and yet the light in January is different. Always so beautiful.
In late December 2022, I created the two posts some light begins and also Haiku: Light and Seasons.
Here are two more poems today.
clouds and yet
enough light
to fill a jam jar
with the last
of the carnations
early morning
light on an old painting
in a new place
“early morning” was published by hedgerow: a journal of small poems #136, 2021, edited by Caroline Skanne. Reprinted at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
some light begins
some light begins
with clouds in the sky
winter morning
early morning
holiday lilies
in sunroom light
cup from a thrift store
on my grandmother’s
straw chest
near the window
fills with light
reading
reading
different books
poetry and memoirs
some wind today
in the evergreens
rereading
rereading
a few poems
and pages
to hear an
author’s voice
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