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.
late August
and still Summer
bees and goldenrod
by a sunny window
on a quiet morning
Published by WestWard Quarterly The Magazine of Family Reading, Summer 2022. You can also learn about this print journal at WWQ on Facebook.
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
L ove of literature
I nspires countless
B eautiful hours of
R eading many
A uthors, and sometimes
R ereading beloved books
Y early
Acrostic for Library
WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading
My poem was published in Fall 2018.
Oostburg Public Library “Modern resources, personalized services”
Photo by Karl from July 1, 2018.
We discovered the Little Free Library site a few years ago. Karl and I donated copies of Quiet Christmas Poetry to the free libraries in our area. We also gave a copy to our Oostburg Library in town.
Karl’s winter photo of the Lake Michigan beach, several years ago, is the Cover Art for Quiet Christmas Poetry.
And I am grateful for the WordPress.com free photo library.
Posts in this series:
Art and Hope
Art and Nature
Art and Seasons
Art and Flowers
Thank you
names and addresses
for dear friends
no longer on earth
old address book
not yet written
in the overflowing book
cards and envelopes
with last known
addresses
still wanting to remember
what may no longer
be current – places I was
people I knew
Time of Singing, Spring 2018
“not yet written” and “still wanting to remember” were also published in All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019). Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press; West Union, WV.
Poems From Psalms And Nature 