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
Read moreFeatured Poem: Punctuated
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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
Featured Poem: Reflections
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By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch In the mirror I call out to her. Her reflection, so youthful. Eager, hopeful. I call to her, warn her. It goes ... Read more
Featured Poem: An Event of Astronomical Proportions
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By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California One summer night over twenty years ago a once-in-a-lifetime meteorite streaked across the entire sky over Yosemite Valley, creating the illusion of daylight ... Read more
Featured Poem: Fruitless Attempt
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By Megha Sood Member-at-large Thin corridors of silence cave in as I walk through them— my elbow grazing old memories and reshuffling feathers of time. I know this ... Read more
Featured Poem: Poetry is Medicinal
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By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California (a trimeric) Write a sonnet! You will forget your ailments as you struggle to rhyme, while maintaining the prescribed meter. You ... Read more
Featured Poem: A Little Fire
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By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch “Keep a little fire burning, however small, however hidden.” Cormac McCarthy Start with the fuel inside you — the needs, the wishes, ... Read more