Featured Poem: silence…
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By Ilene L. Cooper Member-at-large she shoulders silence, hidden in a mind of violence, quieted, by the infamous pill, opioids and fentanyl, the mixture true, sublime, she tried it ... Read more
Featured Poem: Rainy Days (Haiku)
Featured Poem, NLAPWBy Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large rainy days are slow reflections, introspection soul’s quiet voice speaks
Read moreFeatured Poem: A Box of Lost Letters
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By Annette Galiardi Des Moines Branch, Iowa Words fight and scratch to escape, make my fingers bleed with their urgency to slip out without ink — ... Read more
Featured Poem: A Wing and A Prayer
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By Barbara Dunham Pensacola Branch It is below zero. The scene outside the window a hub of activity. First one, now three, then six, wee birds at the feeder. Hungry ... Read more
Featured Poem: By Hand
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By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-large Worked by loving hands, the quilt hangs on the wall next to my bed. Precisely cut and sewn, a mélange of intense blue ... Read more
Featured Poem: Kitchen Companions-kitchen-companions
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By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch for my mother, Miriam Gants 1918-2012), who so joyfully shared her kitchen with me My mother’s been waiting for me to open the narrow ... Read more
Featured Poem: Autumn Afternoon, Hawaii
Featured Poem, NLAPWBy Patrice M. Wilson Honolulu Branch Long thin palm leaves throw shadows like darkened fingers on hungry ground awaiting winter rain to feed our summer-dried souls
Read moreFeatured Poem: Baltimore Woods
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By Lisa Harris Central New York Branch A triple trunk beechwood makes its own trinity. Farther down the path, a black walnut’s face scrutinizes me, and asks, ‘What brings ... Read more
Featured Poem: Untimely Thoughts
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By Judith Crystal Greenwich Branch Looking at my iPad The number at the top left hand corner In simple sans serif numerals is 5:59 But The hand of the ... Read more
Featured Poem: Final Analysis (A True Story)
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By Carol White Boca Raton Branch “We’ll be slicing into your head, Mrs. White It shouldn’t hurt much, please look at the light There’s a drain in your brain ... Read more