This time of great need is a post I wrote yesterday, at Poems From Psalms And Nature. Then the next post was from Psalm 17.
I also wrote about the Psalms in 2010, in the Haiku – Three Questions series edited by Curtis Dunlap. Ellen Olinger – Three Questions is my page at his site, Blogging Along Tobacco Road. There is a significant poetry archive there.
Thy statutes have been my songs
in the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalm 119: 54 (KJV)
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clouds and yet
enough light
to fill a jam jar
with the last
of the carnations
reading Psalms
in the sunroom
fragrance of daffodils
poems we read
again and again
washing an old plate
the pattern
still new
different shapes
of the rose bush
and lilacs in the yard
they grew towards
the light
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Poems are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
I received Charlotte Digregorio’s new print book, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing, this week. Yesterday, I began reading and am grateful for her art.
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog features many poets, and I am honored to be published there.
Please read Charlotte’s post, Heal Yourself with this Book, for more information.
You can also refer to her post, It’s Published! Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing.
Ellen Grace Olinger
March sunrise
shadows of trees
on cedar garage
this morning
garage painting (in words)
Yesterday, while working at the kitchen sink, I looked out the window and saw a beautiful image:
some moss on the side of the cedar garage
with a cedar tree nearby
light was shining there
with the shapes of the tree branches
amidst the green
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winter storm Sunday
a day to read poems
and enjoy the images,
language, and craft
with my heart
Today – and the following poems are from a past Spring. They were published together on one page in Time Of Singing.
Holy Week
lily flowers
wait to bloom
sometimes by sight
in my life of faith
apple trees in bloom
trusting God
a little more
with my questions
fog rests
on Spring fields
Time Of Singing
Volume 41, Number 1
Spring 2014
Poems are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
gardens in winter
the serene snowfall
and remembering
where snowdrops
will bloom
January 2011
soon the garden
will begin in small ways
snowdrops
March 2019
blue sky
with cotton clouds
snowdrops
March 2010
reading Psalms
in the sunroom
fragrance of daffodils
March 2015
all the more yellow
because of grey skies
daffodils
forsythia
dandelions
May 2011
sunrise
daffodils bowed by rain
recover
May 2016
leaving them be
fragrance of faded
daffodils in a glass
June 2015
And a poem from February 2015:
blue grey sky
and water
a light grey
sun bright
through
evergreens
this new day
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Poems are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
birds in the painting
from the thrift store
forever in flight
how small the song
of an unknown bird
quiet memories
in the backyard
birds back
and singing
never too old
to find this new
bluebirds
truly so blue
trustworthy friends
losses in life
low setting sun
through branches of trees
now rises again
as birds quietly sing
pink clouds
span the horizon
seagulls take flight
stretching to read
new books
afternoon rain
seagulls on pilings
wait to fly again
Images of seagulls are courtesy of wpclipart.
Poems are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
