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garden perennials

October 13, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

garden perennials
grow and rest
return again

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summer to fall

September 13, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

summer to fall
willow branches
in sun and shadow

Yanagi (willow) 1870u20131880 Megata Morikaga by Library of Congress is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

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older vision

August 16, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

older vision
grateful for my chair
by a sunny window

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good to create

August 2, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

good to create
when we can
sometimes more
sometimes less
every year different

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tree with full leaves

July 27, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

tree with full leaves
providing shade
comfort of faith

Haiku published by Time Of Singing Poetry Journal, Summer 2012.

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new garden poem

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

old friends
in the gardens
phlox flowers bloom
with daylily
plants

June 5, 2024 – My Journal Poems

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And the daylilies bloom in summer.

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Haiku for Memorial Day

May 25, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

ancient lilacs
cover the graves
Memorial Day

My poem was published years ago in SMILE, Joyce M. Johnson, Ed. and Humoresque, Jean Calkins, Ed.

Reprinted at Short Holiday Poems and Large Print Poems yesterday, if you would like to visit these blogs. I still remember seeing this poem.

“Purple lilac flowers bloom green” Openverse