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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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
some days
I read a little more
with my heart
and let my mind rest
different writers
and their gifts
with many forms
poems, novels,
letters, stories
blog posts
another day
or even year
I will reread and
understand a little
more about craft
and what I learned
from the author
yes, this is the gift
of growing older
all that can be kept
in the heart
grown to new art
Today – still love the mystery of learning. I may read a poet for comfort and wisdom, and later reread and study the craft. “Oh, I see – wonderful.” And meanwhile, a good way to pass the time when I need more rest. Light for a new life-lesson.
far from perfect
and in need of grace
we found our way
to unconditional love
Ellen Grace Olinger
Images: Reusable Art
Earlier this month, I updated my page, Haiku Society Of America Members’ Anthologies. The page features my poems in the books since 2013, along with the names of editors and additional publication credits.
My Pages are filed under Menu.
You may also wish to visit the Haiku Society Of America site.
Purple Crocus Drawing is courtesy of Reusable Art.
Ellen Grace Olinger
These are a few of the verses from the Bible that I quoted this year.
For a thousand years in thy sight
are but as yesterday
when it is past,
and as a watch in the night.
Psalm 90: 4 (KJV)
Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11: 28 (KJV)
A new commandment I give unto you,
that ye love one another;
as I have loved you,
that ye also love one another.
John 13: 34 (KJV)
Yet the Lord will command
his lovingkindness in the daytime,
and in the night his song shall be with me,
and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalm 42: 8 (KJV)
Mauthe Lake
Kettle Moraine State Forest – Northern Unit
Wisconsin State Parks System
April 12, 2019
Photos by Karl
Ellen Grace Olinger
daylight
some clouds the colors
of birch trees
new books
by poets, editors
and publishers –
their time to shine
and readers blessed
gratitude
for the many gifts shared
blogs and books
Today I began reading Another Trip Around the Sun: 365 Days of Haiku for Children Young and Old. edited by Jessica Malone Latham. 2019, Brooks Books; Taylorville, Illinois.
Ellen Grace Olinger
reading memoirs
and then the view
outside today
Ellen Grace Olinger
I am happy and honored that my poem from this blog was published in a new anthology. The book is available at Amazon.
All the Way Home:
Aging in Haiku
Edited by
Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press
West Union WV
