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everyday beauty

Ellen Grace Olinger

everyday beauty
to care for and see
flowers and trees

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old poem

Ellen Grace Olinger

birds perch
in sheltering branches
a grain of mustard seed

Matthew 13: 31 – 32

Ellen Grace Olinger

Time of Singing poetry journal, 1995

This was one of my first haiku to be published in a print journal.

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