Featured Poem: Once More With Feeling
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By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch, New York When a comet from the clouds hurls a starfish to the sky; when the earth gives up its matter and the ... Read more
Featured Poem: Balance
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By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch, Florida How do we do it? How do we keep our balance in these trying times? Nowadays, it seems everyone is out ... Read more
Featured Poem: All That Blossoms
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By Virginia Nygard Vero Beach Branch Mom and I pause this April day to rest in the park where the flag on the pole flies free and tulips in ... Read more
Featured Poem: Connections
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By Patricia Daly-Lipe Jacksonville Branch, Florida Tap computer keys. Narrative is an art. Let words take over. Time passes, But, in the pockets of your mind, The past remains. ... Read more
Featured Poem: Polarization
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By Jane B. Howard Vero Beach Branch Oh wonderful years — time presses on. What happened to those Slow, green days of summer When we loved and laughed together? ... Read more
Featured Poem: Trails of Kindness
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By Megha Sood Member-at-large I count the years as I walk past the trees lining my courtyard, counting them one by one neatly on my soft supple fingers. ... Read more
Featured Poem: We Gathered in the Garden
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By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch “The ladies,” we were called by the neighbors, our husbands, even our children. Noontime chores over, kitchens cleaned up, an hour welcome respite ... Read more
Featured Poem: Bare Branches
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By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-large, California and Florida Have nothing to hide, they are truth-tellers. Keep promises that leaves will appear season after season, year after year. ... Read more
Celebrate National Poetry Month
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A Message from Claire Massey, NLAPW Poetry Editor April is the month to celebrate the power and potential of poetry to rock our world! Poems can widen eyes; broaden minds; ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Immigrant in 1900
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By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California The Immigrant in 1900 knows steerage and squalor, suspenders, shirts of heavy ticking; labors in a Lower East Side sweatshop filled with whirring ... Read more