Haiku Sequences

Summer Haiku

time
of daylilies and hosta
July

reading poems
from years ago
perennials grow

mid-July
daylilies and hosta
tell the time

July days go by
this year’s leaves
in sun and wind

August sunrise
goldenrod grows tall
by the window

Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
Summer 2020
Ellen Grace Olinger

Garden Haiku

wind uplifting
the branches of trees
sunrise

morning garden
shadows of lilacs
on the chair

reading memoirs
and then the view
outside today

reading poetry
in the garden
summer school

timeless seasons
I don’t know how old
these plants are

each flower
a star for a time
daylilies

treetops
in golden light
sunset

Ellen Grace Olinger
June 16, 2019