still room
for robins in spring
broken branch
covered with snow
by my study window
February 25, 2023
evergreens and sky
is blue – some snow
on branches
yet more green today
I think of snowdrops
in spring
February 26, 2023
a few icicles
by the window
rain and wind
last few days
of February
February 27, 2023
POEMS FROM OOSTBURG, WISCONSIN
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.
Daily writing prompt
Our family traditions have changed over the years to honor and remember, and reflect the present time.
old family tablecloth
placed over my
tall file cabinet
from where I sit
and read . . .
the pattern
forms the
Cross
January 2013
gold leaves
left on the tree
more than enough
then evergreens
and blue sky
Study window poem
fall light
on green forsythia leaves
and a yellow chrysanthemum
on an old green chair
fall light, fall
yellow chrysanthemum
on an old green chair
in the yard and an orange
pumpkin near the door
fall stillness
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin yesterday
Psalms to pray
and poems to read
sun on seawalls
October 2021
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
Dawn Returns
The Haiku Society of America
2022 Members’ Anthology
John J. Han, Editor
Haiku Society of America, New York
Ellen Grace Olinger
if I could read
every book
in my small library
I would then
begin again
POEMS FROM OOSTBURG, WISCONSIN – new poem
L ove of literature
I nspires countless
B eautiful hours of
R eading many
A uthors, and sometimes
R ereading beloved books
Y early
LIBRARY
WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading
Fall 2018
warm August night
light fading –
already?
Time of Singing (1996)
beautiful
the light through the days
and seasons
Poems From Psalms And Nature 