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
Featured Poem: I Planted My Feet on the Banks of the Rhine
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By Luanna K. Leisure Santa Clara County Branch, California As I stood on the banks of the Rhine gazing across to France, I wondered if my forefathers took ... Read more
Featured Poem: Mist on the Water
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By Donna Puglisi Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida Steaming the cold lake’s shallow waters, Sheets of mist creep slowly over the glassy surface. Gray fingers stroke her face, barely touching, ... Read more
Featured Poem: Change
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By Elvira Sisca Greenwich Branch, Connecticut I’ve been wondering Why certain people Appear in my life. Especially the annoying ones. It seems interesting and ironic Because I’m beginning to ... Read more
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