new picture
on my study wall
calendar for September

new picture
on my study wall
calendar for September
reading poetry
my coffee gets cold
guess I made it
for the fragrance
Ellen Grace Olinger
Time of Singing poetry journal
Fall 2016
reading the poets
of my parents’
generation
their voices
return
Ellen Grace Olinger
SMILE, 2010
Reprinted: They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).
book shelves
with cards on display
a handmade gift
and a few old dishes
decades of life so far
breakfast and music
when a song begins
I know the words
Amazing Grace
sunrise
in early May
tiny bird sings
on the branch
of budding lilacs
Spring poetry
journals in the mail
new season of art