morning
kitchen, prayer
and poetry
the light
is different now
evergreens
this year’s growth
in morning light


morning
kitchen, prayer
and poetry
the light
is different now
evergreens
this year’s growth
in morning light







wildflowers and
mailboxes along roads
messages of hope
old poem


blue sky and clouds
new growth on the spruce tree
by the windows




reading poetry
many different forms
seasons turn again
always familiar
always new

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

