Featured Poem: Ode to Defiant Optimism
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By Sharon E. Ludan Honolulu Branch “The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun…” – W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues ... Read more
Featured Poem: Winter Solstice (Dodoitsu)
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By Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-Large winter solstice arriving shortest day and longest night silent trees gather forces for returning light lighter, longer, brighter days saunter through the winter gloom ... Read more
Featured Poem: Lessons From a Gosling’s Journey
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By Adrienne Reedy Greenwich Branch By the water’s edge, where tall grasses sway, Two parent geese, in their protective way, Guarded their two little downy, bright kin, Sweet ... Read more
Featured Poem: Chapters
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By Terry Henry Pensacola Branch He sits in his favorite chair in the early morning light His reading glasses perched on his nose Slowly scrolling through the morning headlines ... Read more
Featured Poem: Testing for Moisture
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By Pat Underwood Des Moines Branch My father stepped into the field that spring and sifted black earth through his fingers until it fell to the ground like ... Read more
Featured Poem: A Steady Hand
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(aka: PenWomenship 2025) By Christina Larson Pensacola Branch Nanny Muller’s penmanship compared to none, I thought. My nanny formed each A-B-C the same way I’d been taught. ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Butterfly Effect
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By Debora G. De Farias Jacksonville Branch Have you ever fallen in love with the Impossible? Have you ever been lost in the vast immensity of a look that ... Read more
Featured Poem: Marriage Vow
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By Rachael Ikins Bayou City II Branch One country is not the world. I missed the moon this morning. Only a film-softened face. Dawn. My old house ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Coloring Box
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By Dorothy Atkins Santa Clara County Branch How novel that the color of skin is not interchangeable. I pivoted in today’s world because it comes unapologetically. I find harmony ... Read more
Featured Poem: Clowns
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By Terry Henry Pensacola Branch If I were to say what scares me the most I admit that it would have to be clowns Painted white faces with ... Read more