one red tulip
blooms in the hosta border
time alone with God
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Published in A Moment’s Longing, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2019, edited by Tanya McDonald.
Daily Haiku: Sept. 22, 2022 at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
The Academy of American Poets began National Poetry Month in April 1996. I am grateful for poetry – for as long as I can remember. The Psalms, songs and music, acrostic poems, haiku, tanka, many forms.
reading poems
from years ago
perennials bloom
Published in Visiting The Wind: The Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2021. Erin Castaldi, Editor.
My poem was the Daily Haiku: Dec. 9, 2021 at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
My Acrostic Poems is another site that may inspire poetry, and creative writing lessons in general.
small flowers
close to the ground
many ways to grow
sunrise
for as long
as I can remember
the wonder of books
Poems For Bulletin Boards 