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
Featured Poem: Facing Our Fears
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By Nancy Keats Benson Central New York Branch we walk silently night seeping into our fibers we forget when smiles effervesce into sunshine no need to worry ... Read more
Featured Poem: Topical
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By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida Topical methods of applying medications to the skin are used by practioners all over the world to alleviate pain. What ... Read more
Featured Poem: Buttons
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By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch An old round tin, perhaps once filled with candy, is slightly dented by years of use, the lid printed with a scene of palm ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Long Winter of Cancer
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By Martha Steger Member-at-large The sun’s brightest rays fall on another hemisphere. I lie trapped in long frozen night as wakening quail summons its might to chip through icy ... Read more
Feature Poem: Widow
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By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch (Florida) You are no longer suffering, “in a better place.” I’m glad for that. But that place is not with me anymore. ... Read more
Featured Poem: Sea Oats
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By Fern Overvold Atlanta Branch (Georgia) Tall and slender the sea oats bow to one another without breaking. Something in their sandy shoes allows them to tilt from their ... Read more
Featured Poem: Treading Water
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By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch (Florida) One of the first things we learned way back then in Camp Tioga was how to float, front and back and how ... Read more