Ellen Grace Olinger
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
sunrise . . .
some water
for the chrysanthemum
hedgerow #133, autumn 2020
Daily Haiku: February 16, 2021
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
early hours
of quiet and poetry
gardens overflow
and if some winter
my mind forgets
my heart will know
reading memoirs
and then the view
outside today
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku, 2019
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV
older now
used books settle
in their new home
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019)
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV
clouds and yet
enough light
to fill a jam jar
with the last
of the carnations
music and rest
sun fills the daffodils
by the window
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
Post was updated on June 26, 2021.
different shapes
of the rose bush
and lilacs in the yard
they grew towards
the light
tiny leaves
on trees
no prayer
in my heart
too small for God
Credit for “tiny leaves:”
Micro-poem by Ellen Grace Olinger
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Post updated on June 24, 2021.
