monarch butterfly

home from mailing
poetry notes
monarch butterfly
greets me
at the back door

sunset sunrise

losses in life
low setting sun
through branches of trees
now rises again
as birds quietly sing

reading a new book
the fragrance
of fresh paper

reading journals
new generation of poets
since I began

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recollections
of summers gone by
voices on the breeze

July 3, 2022
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal

another summer
art on the wall
by someone
long ago still
speaks to me

Ellen Grace Olinger, USA

Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
A Daily Journal of Japanese Short-Form Poetry
June 6, 2022

That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving,
and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Psalm 26: 7