pink clouds
span the horizon
seagulls take flight
stretching to read
new books

predawn
and watching
the sky grow light
gift of another day
to read and write

Thy statutes have been my songs
in the house of my pilgrimage.

Psalm 119: 54 (KJV)

poems we read
again and again
washing an old plate
the pattern
still new

fragrance of leaves
in the gardens
what good friends
we became
as we grew older

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku, 2017
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV

Time of Singing, Fall 2019

Tanka by Ellen Grace Olinger
August 8, 2020
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog

seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given

Mayfly, 58, Winter 2015

tinywords
4 September 2015

Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Daily Haiku: April 2, 2016

The Signature Haiku Anthology, Including Senryu and Tanka, 2020.
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV

My Poet Profile in the Haiku Registry, at The Haiku Foundation

wearing
my old sweater
worn thin
Queen Anne’s lace
along country roads

Tanka by Ellen Grace Olinger
October 17, 2020
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog