March days
time to observe
and watch for
all the beginnings
of Spring
March days
Category: Art
Creative Note: Mead Public Library Blog
Resources For Writers! is the new post from Mead Public Library Blog.
You can also visit the Mead Library Website. The library is in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. There is a page for Up-to-Date Information on Library Services.
how many mornings
how many mornings
have I read and looked
at birch trees in sun
and blue sky?
and yet today
is the most beautiful
Blessed are they that mourn:
for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5: 4 (KJV)
Sunday morning
Over the years, my book collection has grown, and I have given many books and journals away. Now I am grateful to browse at home, and read what I was not able to read before, for one reason or another.
Poetry journals, memoirs, novels, letters – books and journals at different times. Rereading is also a blessing, and can be a comfort when I don’t feel able to read something new; and yet I always learn more. If I know the story, for example, I look to learn a little more about how the author achieved the work. If I can easily reread a poem aloud and the poem is still new, the poet has achieved something beautiful.
Sometimes I know an author’s work so well, that a short selection recalls the whole work so far. I have read many books by Luci Shaw. As I write, I am looking at Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems by Luci Shaw (2016, WordFarm).
Over time, this creates comfort and a new history for me. I reread a poem, for example, and remember how the poem helped during a difficult time. And now time has passed, and rereading deepens my faith and hope.
So what I read and write now, is for today, and also for the future. And I remember as well, and am grateful to be writing this post today.
Creative Note
My haiku:
sunrise . . .
some water
for the chrysanthemum
is the Daily Haiku: Feb. 16, 2021 at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
Previously published by hedgerow #133, autumn 2020 (a print journal).
Ellen Grace Olinger
poem for a journal
poem for a journal
and a new post
blue watercolor sky
Ellen Grace Olinger
wpclipart
Inspiration
The blue pitcher
that came with white lilacs and tears –
his beautiful woodwork
by Carol Purington
All Rights Reserved
Carol was inspired by my photo for the (Extra)ordinary WordPress Photo Challenge at this site on October 16, 2015.
Then we created a post, Poem by Carol Purington, on October 31, 2015, at Poems From Psalms And Nature.
The blue pitcher is one of our thrift store treasures.
Previous posts in this series:
Creative Note in Memory: Carol Purington (1949 – 2020)
Ellen Grace Olinger
