faith kept and grown
when much else could not
the rains arrived
puddles in the fields
how beautiful
the rich brown earth
primroses growing
from garden to lawn
deep decades of roots
strengthen my faith
for new dreams
beginning
in the area
where we had
to take a tree down
new peony leaves
Poems are from my archives.
Pictures are from Reusable Art.
I was listening to music that recalled many years, and I remembered a verse from the Psalms.
They go from strength to strength . . .
From Psalm 84: 7 (KJV)
One of my early poems is “And So My Soul:”
Endurance is eloquent
And marigolds are
Admirable because
They bloom
So long
I wrote the poem in 1981, and it was published by Time Of Singing in 1991. You can read the poem in my post from August 10, 2019.
For this post, I looked for a photo from each season at the WordPress.com Free Photo Library.
I watch or read the news. And many hours of the day I read, pray, create, look for beauty. A lot of time with blogs. Simple work at home. There are snowdrops in the garden. Earlier this year, Karl did a lot of work in the yard, on warm days. There is new space for daylilies and hosta to grow.
Last week was another year since my father died. He was a veteran, and then taught history.
sunrise
after the storm . . .
glistening lake-waves
branches coated with ice
and a crow cawing
after the storm
driftwood washes to shore
from other places . . .
what we let go
what we keep
Karl took this photo on March 24, 2011. I wrote the poem the same day.
Lake Michigan
Oostburg, Wisconsin
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.
