one month ends
another begins
evergreen branches
frame the night sky
My poem is from Quiet Christmas Poetry, our large print chapbook, from our site with the same name. Perhaps you would enjoy a large print copy as well, or to set aside for a gift. You can read the poems at the site.
The book can be ordered from Time of Singing “quarterly Christian poetry journal from Wind & Water Press.” You can also visit Editor Lora Zill’s site, The Blue Collar Artist.
Thank you,
Ellen Grace Olinger
So far, I have received the new winter issues for three print journals. I enjoy reading and learning from many writers and publishers.
Time Of Singing, A Journal Of Christian Poetry
Editor: Lora Homan Zill
Wind & Water Press
WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading
Shirley Anne Leonard, Editor
Dr. Richard Leonard, Publisher
MAYFLY
Editors: Randy & Shirley Brooks
Brooks Books Haiku
Hope you enjoy visiting their sites. If you are sending poems for review, be sure to read and follow the guidelines carefully.
Ellen Grace Olinger
reading poems aloud
raindrops on the windows
reminds me how
Helen Keller
learned “water”
Ellen Grace Olinger
Time Of Singing
Volume 38, Number 2
Summer 2011
Under “Book Offers” in the Fall 2015 issue of Time Of Singing, Lora Homan Zill, Editor, included a picture of our Christmas book and wrote: “Light and easy to hold, with large print, it is ideal for anyone battling or recovering from serious illness, or who needs a special word of encouragement over the holiday season.”
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If you wish to order a copy of Quiet Christmas Poetry, please visit the books page at Time Of Singing. There is an ordering form that may be printed. All proceeds benefit TOS.
Quiet Christmas Poetry is both a site and a book.
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Lora’s site is Feeling God’s Pleasure Through Creative Work, the blue collar artist.
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Lake Michigan beach cover art photo is by Karl.
my large print Bible
rests on the Thanksgiving tray
the bread of life
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late November
sun fills a glass
for a time
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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.
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Credits for poems by Ellen Grace Olinger:
“my large print Bible” was published in Time Of Singing (TOS), Fall 2016; and “late November” was published in TOS, Fall 2013.
Photo by Karl
November
few leaves
left on the lilac
living with
your loss
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This is my poem in the anthology with Time Of Singing (TOS), Welcoming Hope: Poems for those in need.
Please visit the books page at TOS for more information.
The cover art for Welcoming Hope is by Charles A. Waugaman.
Lora Homan Zill is editor of Time Of Singing.
As an additional note today, I wrote this poem the first autumn after my mother’s winter passing (2004). The lilacs have bloomed many more times since then.
At the time, the key word in this poem for me was loss.
Now I know the key word is living – and I am grateful every day.
Thank you,
Ellen Grace Olinger
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Publication note: “November” was published in Hermitage: A Haiku Journal, Volume II, 2005. Ion Codrescu, Editor.
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Yesterday, Karl and I went to The Salvation Army Family Store in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. We bought two small books to add to my collection of devotional books from thrift stores.
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The Fall 2017 Time Of Singing, edited by Lora Homan Zill, arrived yesterday.
Sample Poems by E. Edgar Hix, Lora Zill, and Charles A. Wauaman can be read on the poems page at the TOS site, along with poems by Elizabeth Howard and Marsha Hood.
Audrey Stallsmith is Webmaster.
Time Of Singing was founded in 1958 by Dr. Benjamin P. Browne.
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Poems From Psalms And Nature 