morning prayer
water birds flying north
stay close to water
Ellen Grace Olinger
Publication credits:
SMILE (Spring, 2012); Joyce M. Johnson, Editor/Publisher.
Take-out Window: Haiku Society of America 2014 Members’ Anthology, edited by Gary Hotham.
L ove
E verlasting
N ot
T emporary
One of your favorite poems – thank you.
Ellen Grace Olinger
shoveling . . .
scent of mint
through snow
Ellen Grace Olinger
This haiku was selected for the 25th Anniversary Volume, Time Of Singing, in 1998.
Dreaming Sunlight, by Margarita Engle (2003, Feather Books) is the Book of the Week at The Haiku Foundation. You can read Garry Eaton’s introduction here.
Margarita’s official website has additional information about her current work.
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Food Pantry collections
warm greetings
and offers of help with groceries
old-fashioned kindness
warms our hearts
Salvation Army
bell ringers
so cheerful in the cold
adding a dollar
to a Red Kettle or two
“Salvation Army” was published in Bell’s Letters Poet (2011).
Poems: Ellen Grace Olinger
Images: wpclipart
Credits: “Paul Sherman of wpclipart dedicated to the Public Domain”
November 2015
Lake Michigan – November 2016
Snow on wood path – November 2017
Ellen Grace Olinger
