small steps
one day at a time
sparrows in the yard
small steps
Category: Aging
seasons repeat
seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given
by Ellen Grace Olinger
August 17, 2014
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
Mayfly, 58, Winter 2015
Brooks Books Haiku
tinywords
4 September 2015
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Daily Haiku: April 2, 2016
The Signature Haiku Anthology, Including Senryu and Tanka.
Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press, 2020.
My Poet Profile at the Haiku Registry, which is a Feature at The Haiku Foundation. Thank you to former editor Billie Wilson, who helped me create my profile page.
late Fall
I look at my shelves, and what has been there for a time; and I have not read this book or that journal. Then I wonder why – what was happening then? And I remember, and maybe had read a poem or two, or a page or two, and was helped and blessed.
late Fall
and Winter soon
plans for silence
and time to read
poetry
Reprinted December 1, 2021
reading a new book
reading a new book
the fragrance
of fresh paper
garden perennials
garden perennials
grow and rest
return again
autumn here
spring always
in my heart
grateful to many artists
good to create
good to create
when we can
sometimes more
sometimes less
every year different
sometimes when I pray
sometimes when I pray
before a meal, I remember
my grandmother’s prayers
in Swedish, and her voice
Poems For Books 