Christmas Blessings 2022 is a new post at Quiet Christmas Poetry, to let those who may be interested know that our book is still available. I wrote:
Quiet Christmas Poetry, the large print chapbook that Karl and I created from this site, may be ordered from Time of Singing poetry journal. Lora Homan Zill is Editor.
There is a Time of Singing Order Form filed under “subscriptions/back issues/books” at the Time of Singing site.
I read the waymaker by Ann Voskamp. Her book is an honest and generous memoir. There is more information at her site, which also includes a blog. I have been reading her books for several years.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah 26: 3 (KJV)
November Wisconsin countryside
Bare trees elegant against the sky
Colors in the landscape muted now
October’s glory is gone
And love grows eternally
Ellen Grace Olinger
Published in SMILE
(Fall/Winter 2008 – 09)
SMILE, a large print poetry journal, was edited and published by Joyce M. Johnson for many years.
looking at trees
I remember prayers
of friends
My haiku was published at Poems From Psalms And Nature on May 16, 2012. Reprinted in the book, The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology (Including Senryu, Tanka, and Haiga). Edited by Robert Epstein (2020, Middle Island Press).
Karl and I also reprinted the poem in Quiet Christmas Poetry (2014).
November garden
fallen leaves so much has died
a single rose blooms
I wrote “November garden” years and years ago. My poem was published in Pegasus, SMILE, and The Discerning Poet. Always grateful, always hope, always poems (reading and writing when I can). Blogs are a good way to create through many seasons.
Photos by Karl
rain today
how soon we reach
the end of what we know
and how deep
faith continues to grow
Poem from October 2014
Poems From Psalms And Nature 