Tanka: Late August

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.

LIBRARY acrostic 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

Ellen Grace Olinger

WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading
Fall 2018

We have bought used books from libraries over the years. I have three novels by Jan Karon from our Oostburg Public Library “A Little Library Growing Everyday.”

Karl took the photos at the Oostburg library in July 2018 and 2019.

Posts in this new series at Poems From Psalms And Nature:

Mercy

Mercy and Gratitude

strawberries

coat from a thrift store

Poetry Book by Madeleine L’Engle

Photo at Home

Thank you

reading

reading
in a sunny corner
of the house
I could be
any age

Ellen Grace Olinger

My poem was published in WestWard Quarterly, The Magazine of Family Reading (Winter 2016). Shirley Anne Leonard is Editor.

The images are courtesy of wpclipart.

Three Print Journals

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