looking at trees

looking at trees
I remember prayers
of friends

Published first here at Poems From Psalms And Nature on May 16, 2012.

Karl and I reprinted the poem in Quiet Christmas Poetry (2014).

Then my haiku was reprinted in this book:

The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology (Including Senryu, Tanka, and Haiga). Edited by Robert Epstein (2020, Middle Island Press).

I am grateful to see how a poem can last, be read again, and shared in new ways.

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roses in the sun

roses in the sun
some ending
some beginning
and some in full bloom
good to grow older

by Ellen Grace Olinger

August 20, 2012

Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin

All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku, 2019
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union, WV

Orange and Pink Roses by Ida Waugh, courtesy of Reusable Art.