hosta plants grow
around the ash tree stump
an abundance of health
and new green
as if to say
we knew you would not
last the storm
we are here
there is new beauty now
new hope and a new time
I wrote the poem last week, and took the photo yesterday. They were published first in posts at Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin. I call these poems journal poems. They flow from my heart, and I write them directly in posts. Often though, an image or personal reflection is with me for a long time, before I write. When I can write easily, it is because I am living with the images, and blessed by God’s grace in many ways. And as I pray the Psalms and read in general, my own writing grows. Rest is necessary too.
Ellen Grace Olinger
