Featured Poem

Send Us Your Poems from the Biennial Competition

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 Featured Poem, Latest News

By Karen Morris Poetry editor Did you enter one of the Biennial Letters poetry contests this year? In the latest Biennial Letters competition, there were 350 submissions (a record!), and ... Read more

Wind

March 30, 2022March 1, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Autry Dye Pensacola Branch, Florida Goddess Dogoda is my name in one culture. In others I am called Rashabar, Zephyr, Sirocco, Haboob and Pali, Rolling off the tongue ... Read more

Brown Man

March 17, 2022March 1, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Diane Rabideau-Wise Jacksonville Branch, Florida Brown-Down. Knee-Neck. Neck-Closed, Air-Where? Brown-Down. Momma’s where? There is no air. Son’s-Down. Momma cares. Momma’s where? Not a sound. Life-Gone. Brown-Down.

Clouds

March 7, 2022March 1, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Sherrill Geer La Jolla Branch, California They ride across the sky like mythical beasts just pretending to be clouds. Their gray wisps of form are soon scattered, leaving ... Read more

Featured Poem: Not to Worry

February 11, 2022January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch, California I wonder if God made many of us very tired as we reach our last years, so tired we won’t be ... Read more

Featured Poem: My Dog

February 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Elvira Sisca Connecticut Pioneer Branch My kids say My dog loves me Because I feed him, Makes him feel good. I feed my husband all his favorites So ... Read more

Featured Poem: Rosemary

January 26, 2022January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Marcy Von Kohorn Vero Beach Branch, Florida When I think of my dear friend Rosemary, I want to call her, as we chatted every day Maybe about our ... Read more

Featured Poem: There’s Beauty in a Woman

January 20, 2022January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Susan Zerweck Santa Clara County Branch, California There’s beauty in a woman, There’s music in her soul, There’s beauty in a woman, that soul that makes her whole. ... Read more

Featured Poem: First Snowfall

January 12, 2022January 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW

By Donna Puglisi Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida The quiet, the hush of a first snowfall. Delicate snowflakes cover my hair, kiss my eyelashes, melt on my tongue. Each ... Read more

Featured Poem: Gifts of Loss

December 28, 2021January 3, 2022 Featured Poem

By Lynn M. Hansen Modesto Branch, California 1st Place Marion Doyle Poetry Award, 2020 They warned me it would be gone. It would take fourteen days for ... Read more

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