Featured Poem: Ode to Nancy Dafoe
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By Bobbie Dumas Panek Central New York Branch Nancy Dafoe — you rock and roll. Thank you for all of your time generally, my poems don’t rhyme. You are gracious ... Read more
Featured Art: Sacre Coeur
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“Sacre Coeur” by Kay Duffy, Santa Clara Branch (California) Watercolor (30×22) A resident of Saratoga for over 50 years, Kay Duffy exhibits her work and teaches watercolor and collage classes. ... Read more
Featured Poem: Paperclips — A Parable
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By Patricia Doyne Diablo/Alameda Branch A paperclip is simple: two loops of wire, one inside the other. Wires need to slightly separate in order to hold tightly. It’s a ... Read more
Featured Poem: Summer Memory
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By Brenda Layman Central Ohio Branch Thank you for the warm and fragrant memory Cycling down summer lanes In and out of sunlight and shadow Chasing the crystal wind ... Read more
Featured Poem: Tribute to Neva
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By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California The tulips from your memorial service are open now, the vase sits on the windowsill, yellow, orange, purple, dark red petals, translucent like ... Read more
Featured Poem: 2020 Hindsight
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By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch For my father, who would have been 100 in 2020, in remembrance of his positive spirit and everlasting belief in the goodness ... Read more
Featured Poem: I Can’t Breathe
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By Carolynn J. Scully Member-at-large when I watch a man struggle from another’s knee pressed hard on his neck squeezing his windpipe against the pavement when I imagine the broken ... Read more
Featured art: Order of Life, Gen. II
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“Order of Life, Gen. II” by Tomi La Pierre, Member-at-Large, Las Cruces, New Mexico Cast stone (11×16) From the artist: Sometimes I create a sculpture that gives me multiple ideas ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Hospice Butterfly
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By Marcy Von Kohorn Vero Beach Branch, Florida Crossing a covered bridge over a pond With waterlilies and goldfish flitting between the rocks A tranquil setting to visit those ... Read more
Final Quest
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By Judith McGinn Central New York Branch I’m quarantined in Middle-earth on a cold, wintry day. If Bilbo Baggins happened by, I wonder what he’d say about his quest ... Read more