Creative Note: frogpond

On June 18, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Creative Writing, Education, Haiku, Haiku and Related Forms, Haiku Society of America, Higher Education, Hope, Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Today I am reading frogpond, spring/summer 2020.

The Journal of the Haiku Society of America

Michael Ketchek is Editor.
Tom Clausen is Associate Editor.

Forget-Me-Nots

On May 24, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Christian Poetry, Faith, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Oostburg Wisconsin, Perennials, Photography, Poetry, Tanka, Writing

Forget-me-nots
growing in gardens
and between bricks
that form a path
Memorial Day

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Carol Purington

On May 20, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Beauty, Books, Creative Writing, Gratitude, Grief, Haiku, Hope, Inspiration, Literature, Poetry, Tanka

Mother’s Day Haiku and Tanka is a recent post by Carol Purington at Woodslawn Farm.

Farm Song: haiku by Carol Purington will be published soon. Please read the post for all the details.

RAIN acrostic poem

On May 17, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Beauty, Creative Writing, Gratitude, Hope, Inspiration, Nature, Oostburg Wisconsin, Perennials, Photography, Poetry, Writing

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R efresh and renew
A ppreciate plants in all their stages
I nvite new dreams as we age and life changes
N ever without hope

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Creative Note and Photo

On May 8, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Creative At Home, Creative Notes, Education, Higher Education, Hope, Literature, Oostburg Wisconsin, Photography, Poetry

I am working on my series at Poems From Psalms And Nature. Today we reached Psalm 75. There are 150 Psalms.

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found an old journal

On April 20, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Christian Poetry, Contemplation, Creative At Home, Creative Writing, Gratitude, Hope, Micropoetry, Photography, Poetry, Writing

found an old journal
more blessings noted
than I knew

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paintings of trees

On April 19, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Beauty, Books, Creative At Home, Gratitude, Haiku, Haiku Society of America, Hope, Micropoetry, Photography

paintings of trees
on old pine walls
quiet music

Ellen Grace Olinger

Four Hundred and Two Snails
Haiku Society of America
Members’ Anthology 2018
Nicholas M. Sola, Editor

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