Featured Poem: Echoes
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By Sara Etgen-Baker, member-at-large (a haibun*) I opened the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used — the scissors, the darning egg, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Complications
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By Judy Crystal Greenwich Branch, Connecticut Just a simple cataract surgery Well Maybe not so simple But successful Straightforward As expected Until Two weeks later On a sunny afternoon ... Read more
Featured Poem: Joy in September
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By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch, Colorado (Published in Colorado Country Life, Sept 2021) Perched on my window frame so close I could touch save for the glass, a ... Read more
Featured Poem: Progress
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By Patricia Daly-Lipe Jacksonville Branch, Florida Progress is being made All over the world. So-called progress named technology. But there is another avenue of progress Being made all over ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Artist’s Way
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By Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large You can write into the air. You can speak upon a page. A painting can be a novel. A story can paint the perfect ... Read more
Featured Poem: Kissing the Gym
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By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch, Florida Here I am many decades later trying to exorcise … I mean exercise away the accumulated pounds of flesh at the gym ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Willful Words
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By Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch Wild willful words Come sweeping across The page As if they owned My heart. Wild willful words Sometimes, Come more gently. As ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Artist
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By Anne Bonner Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida A blank canvas Waiting for inspiration: “Paint me, Paint me.” She dips her brush in indigo paint And a brilliant ... Read more
Featured Poem: Late Summer Shower
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By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-large, Florida and California I walk onto the balcony to smell the rain after three months dry, welcoming its musky scent. Rain drops blot their signature ... Read more
Featured Poem: Groom Day Rotation
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By Lori Zavada Pensacola Branch, Florida It’s the perfect time to write, except for the tick, tick, ticking of the ceiling fan tossing an emptiness about. It’s only ... Read more