seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given

Published first by Mayfly, 58, Winter 2015.

spruce tree branches
by the windows
each day a painting

WestWard Quarterly, Winter 2021

music and rest
sun fills the daffodils
by the window

early morning
light on an old painting
in a new place

by Ellen Grace Olinger

hedgerow: a journal of small poems
 #136, 2021
edited by Caroline Skanne

Reprinted at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog

January thaw . . .
letting go
of old heartaches

Ellen Grace Olinger

From the book, A Splash of Water: Haiku Society of America 2015 Members’ Anthology, edited by Catherine J.S. Lee.

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