Featured Poem: Family Photos
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By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch Here they sit, all dressed up, with frozen poses hung side by side above the piano, registering disapproving looks. They are the ... Read more
Featured Poem: Autumn Leaves
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By Patrice M. Wilson Honolulu Branch These flaring reds, golden yellows, oranges, magentas are last novas of trees before they’re brown crinkled candidates for another kind of fire. ... Read more
Featured Poem: New Battles
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By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch On battlefields of blood not very long ago, soldiers marching face to face were martyred blow by blow. Now cities burned at ... Read more
Featured Poem: Passages
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By Jane Lies Pensacola Branch Midnight blue silk Covered the heaven, Small beads of Silver Appeared, Sparkling brightly, Suppressing the darkness Of the sky, The silent orb Emerged, Veiled ... Read more
Featured Poem: Teetering
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By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch Sometimes, I think life is like a tightrope, with all of us as walkers. We begin at the starting pole, full of wonder, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Masterpiece
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By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-Large “She is working now…” — Jane Hirshfield, The Poet She is working now, the child at 5, kneeling at the glass table, a ... Read more
Featured Poem: My Words Slip
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By Annette Gagliardi Des Mones Branch from my lips, down the cleft of my chin, to hide beneath my left breast like shy children. They grow thin and dissipate ... Read more
Featured Poem: Sitting in Silence
Featured Poem, NLAPW(Tanka) by Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large sitting in silence the fog of all this living slowly dissipates like clouds clearing at sunset like longing when it finds home
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By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch, Florida Mornings elude me. I don’t come alive till noon, but today, rising at 6AM, I headed to the marsh for a glimpse of ... Read more
Featured Poem: Arctic Summer
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By Lynn Hansen Modesto Branch, California When brilliant light is dancing in Arctic summer skies kittiwakes bathe in icy pools, green or aqua blue in the land of midnight ... Read more