sunrise
in early May
tiny bird sings
on the branch
of budding lilacs

sunshine
along the roads
marsh marigolds

another summer
art on the wall
by someone
long ago still
speaks to me

Psalms to pray
and poems to read
sun on seawalls

after the cold
and on the same day
snowdrops and robins

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