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Christmas Candle

December 2, 2013December 18, 2016 Ellen Grace Olinger

lighting the
Christmas candle
tiny flame
transforms
the night

Hermitage (2005)
The Writers’ Bistro (2007)

Advent · Christmas · Haiku · Poetry

Sunday morning

December 1, 2013December 18, 2016 Ellen Grace Olinger

Sunday morning
all the lovely voices
singing Silent Night

Advent · Christmas · Haiku · Poetry

holiness

November 29, 2013December 18, 2016 Ellen Grace Olinger

holiness
and humility
Christmas

Christmas · Haiku · Poetry

family dinner

November 28, 2013December 18, 2016 Ellen Grace Olinger

family dinner
memories span decades
in minutes

Christmas · Haiku · Poetry

sudden cold

November 27, 2013December 18, 2016 Ellen Grace Olinger

sudden cold —
Christmas cactus
already blooming

Time Of Singing
December, 1997

Christmas · Poetry · Tanka

Rest At Christmas

November 26, 2013November 6, 2025 Ellen Grace Olinger

Christmas CDs
playing with the volume low
in the fields
the beauty of harvested
corn in snow

Acrostic · Advent · Art · Christmas · Education And Poetry · Poetry · Rural Wisconsin · Wisconsin Art

Acrostic Poem For Advent

November 26, 2013December 7, 2024 Ellen Grace Olinger

A doration and
D evotion
V ision of
E ternity
N ow in
T ime

ADVENT

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Ellen Grace Olinger

Ellen Grace Olinger

"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time..." From Ecclesiastes 3:11a (KJV).

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