old friends
in the gardens
phlox flowers bloom
with daylily
plants
June 5, 2024 – My Journal Poems


And the daylilies bloom in summer.


old friends
in the gardens
phlox flowers bloom
with daylily
plants
June 5, 2024 – My Journal Poems


And the daylilies bloom in summer.


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.

patterns on my floor
moving with the breeze
sun from the West
highlights
branches of leaves
Time of Singing, Spring 2011
tree with full leaves
providing shade
comfort of faith
Time of Singing, Summer 2012

at peace
in my study
library book
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Published by Akitsu Quarterly
Spring/Summer 2024

R efresh and renew
A ppreciate plants in all their stages
I nvite new dreams as we age and life changes
N ever without hope
RAIN

January day
red carnations from a store
by windows with snow
2024
POEMS FROM OOSTBURG, WISCONSIN and Large Print Poems

good to create
when we can
sometimes more
sometimes less
every year different
Poem by Ellen Grace Olinger

