Featured Poem: When Day Dies
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By Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch (Texas) When day dies and shadows are no longer shade Now silhouettes and things Of which imaginations made And the wind ordinary by ... Read more
Featured Poem: Winter’s Arrival
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By Bette Lafferty Tampa Branch (Florida) A blast of frigid Arctic air thundered into the Texas Hill Country during the night rattling the windowpanes. The trees danced to the rhyme ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Back Nine
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By Carol Ehrlich Denver Branch I travel the back nine in a reverie, absorbed in the sweet reward of nearing completion, all the time sorry to see the game ... Read more
Featured Poem: Kintsugi*
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By Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch Mended in the broken places With golden glue, So you embrace The pain and missing faces And make a work of art ... Read more
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