Tag: Poets

my large print Bible

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my large print Bible
rests on the Thanksgiving tray
the bread of life

John 6: 35 (KJV):  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life:  he that cometh to me shall never hunger: and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Time Of Singing, A Journal Of Christian Poetry
Volume 43 “Intermezzo”
Fall 2016

Ellen Grace Olinger

looking at trees

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looking at trees
I remember prayers
of friends

Publication Credits:

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

My haiku was first published at this site on May 16, 2012.

Karl and I reprinted the poem in Quiet Christmas Poetry (2014), which is both a site and large print chapbook.

Our book can be ordered from Time of Singing poetry journal, edited by Lora Homan Zill (Wind & Water Press).

Ellen Grace Olinger

New Poems

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new picture
on my study wall
calendar for September

grey day
colors of books go well
with art on the walls

reading books
and also how they
were created
cover art and design
sequence of poems

spruce tree branches
by the windows
each day a painting

mid-September
light across the wood floor
where I write

Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin

Ellen Grace Olinger

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Short Poems

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I began this series on March 17, 2020. This morning we reached Psalm 30.

Every so often, I will share a few of my poems that were inspired by the Psalms.

P romises of
S erenity
A nd
L ove
M editations and
S trength

PSALMS

Bible on my shelf
a ribbon holds my place
in the Psalms

birds sing
outside the window
as we join with many
who pray the Psalms
this Mystery

Poems and photo are by Ellen Grace Olinger.

Psalm 26

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That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving,
and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Psalm 26: 7

Greenwing Drive retention ponds
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
July 2018
Photo by Karl