Category Archives: Ellen Grace Olinger

Daily Haiku Special, Jan. 30, 2026: Ellen Grace Olinger

each month writes its own poems almost February Hauling the Tide Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2024     we hold the door for older people memories of Mom   They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku Special: June 10, 2025, with Walker, Ketchek, and Olinger

soft rain an earthworm stretches its pink by Marilyn Appl Walker (USA) The Heron’s Nest, Issue 10, 2004       light snow falls driving my father to the nursing home by Michael Ketchek (USA) Frogpond, XXIII:3, 2000     … Continue reading

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Daily Double Haiku: Nov. 30, 2023, Ellen Grace Olinger

Psalms to pray and poems to read sun on seawalls by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) dawn returns Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2022       paintings of trees on old pine walls quiet music by Ellen Grace Olinger … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 3, 2023

warm soupwith fresh vegetablesautumn colors by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA)Akitsu Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2023

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 22, 2022

one red tulip blooms in the hosta border time alone with God by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) A Moment’s Longing Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2019

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3 Tanka: June 12, 2022

roses in the sun some ending some beginning and some in full bloom good to grow older by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku, 2019       ceiling fan wobbles dust lit up in sunshine hypnotic murmur . . … Continue reading

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Daily Double Haiku: May 30, 2022

the vase from Mother  beautiful  without flowers by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA)  

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Daily Double Haiku: May 10, 2022

small studyand books to readdays with longer light   by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2022

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 26, 2022

early morning light on an old painting in a new place   by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) hedgerow: a journal of small poems, #136, 2021  

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Daily Haiku: Dec. 9, 2021

reading poems from years ago perennials bloom       by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) Visiting The Wind Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2021

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