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.
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)
WordPress.com Free Photo Library
WordPress.com Free Photo Library
Photos by Karl – April 2013
Karl took these photos in April 2010.
Easter And Spring Poetry is a small site where I am creating some posts for Lent and Easter 2020. Some of your favorite poems are shared again. Last year, I posted there from February to May 2019. I will see what poems I have written since then that may be good to reprint in a new way as well. And perhaps even some new poems!
morning light
forms part of a cross
on the wood wall
my faith completes
the picture
L ove
E verlasting
N ot
T emporary
LENT acrostic poem
These are photos from wpclipart, a good education resource.
Poems are by Ellen Grace Olinger.
