Clouds
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Featured Poem: This Enchanted Chaos
Featured Poem
By Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts There is a message in the trees in June as basswood branches flail in reckless wind, and drenching rain thrashes leaves, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Admiration
Featured Poem
By Lori Joseph Member-at-Large While aboard the Breezin’ Thru, Captain Tilghman Hemsley III handed me a photo of one of his paintings in progress. Tilghman asked me to ... Read more
Featured Poem: Pop’s Figs
Featured Poem
By Martha Steger Member-at-Large As early-morning patricians we have only to go a few steps beyond the back porch – ah, the Romans’ porticus – to pluck drooping red-brown Brahmin fruit ... Read more