So far, I have a list of several poems for my new large print book. The seasons here – and each month – have their own characters. We’ll include a few of our photos.
I enjoy learning about the seasons from many places, from our blogs.
When I was recovering from a chronic illness and major surgery years and years ago, I learned a lot about the materials that may work at these times. This is one of the ways I began writing short poems. And when I spent time with my mother in a nursing home, I noted the bags residents had attached to their walkers, or how they carried things with them in their wheelchairs. A change of view from their rooms to a shared sitting room, with something to read, is nice.
So the poems also express experiences in common, in addition to the seasons I know here.
Here are a few that may be in the next book, or another. There are many layers to the process.
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cold week
ice floats in the water
yet the light is changing
and robins will return
on time
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reading
in a sunny corner
of the house
I could be
any age
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roses in the sun
some ending
some beginning
and some in full bloom
good to grow older
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seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given
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country cemetery
trumpet vines
growing taller than
the gravestones
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Credits:
my blogs – this opportunity to create with WordPress
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog (Daily Haiku)
Mayfly (Brooks Books Haiku)
WestWard Quarterly: The Magazine of Family Reading
Time Of Singing: A Journal Of Christian Poetry
tinywords
My Poet Profile page at The Haiku Foundation Haiku Registry
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Just a beginning, and with gratitude for all the editors, readers, friends. I’ll include poems from anthologies in a future post. Thank you.
Ellen Grace Olinger
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