poems we read
again and again
washing an old plate
the pattern
still new
Lovely Book Plate Illustration is courtesy of Reusable Art.
Ellen Grace Olinger
poems we read
again and again
washing an old plate
the pattern
still new
Lovely Book Plate Illustration is courtesy of Reusable Art.

Bluebirds image is from the Louis Agassiz Fuertes tag at Reusable Art – Breathing New Life Into Old Art.

Downy Woodpecker is from the Louis Agassiz Fuertes tag at Reusable Art – Breathing New Life Into Old Art.
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.

all the ways
light flows through
days, seasons, years
gratitude and love
in my heart


time with old friends
poems in a journal
from years ago


Thy statutes
have been my songs
in the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalm 119: 54

older vision
grateful for my chair
by a sunny window

all still new
seasons where we have lived
for years





family tablecloths
passed on to me
they look like
the art I select
for my blogs

