Featured Poem

Featured Poem: silence…

By Ilene L. Cooper Member-at-large she shoulders silence, hidden in a mind of violence, quieted, by the infamous pill, opioids and fentanyl, the mixture true, sublime, she tried it ... Read more

Featured Poem: Rainy Days (Haiku)

January 30, 2025December 20, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large rainy days are slow reflections, introspection soul’s quiet voice speaks

Featured Poem: A Box of Lost Letters

January 13, 2025December 20, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Annette Galiardi Des Moines Branch, Iowa Words fight and scratch to escape, make my fingers bleed with their urgency to slip out without ink — ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Wing and A Prayer

January 2, 2025December 20, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara Dunham Pensacola Branch It is below zero. The scene outside the window a hub of activity. First one, now three, then six, wee birds at the feeder. Hungry ... Read more

Featured Poem: By Hand

December 16, 2024December 10, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-large Worked by loving hands, the quilt hangs on the wall next to my bed. Precisely cut and sewn, a mélange of intense blue ... Read more

Featured Poem: Kitchen Companions-kitchen-companions

December 7, 2024November 22, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch for my mother, Miriam Gants 1918-2012), who so joyfully shared her kitchen with me My mother’s been waiting for me to open the narrow ... Read more

Featured Poem: Autumn Afternoon, Hawaii

November 14, 2024November 12, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Patrice M. Wilson Honolulu Branch Long thin palm leaves throw shadows like darkened fingers on hungry ground awaiting winter rain to feed our summer-dried souls

Featured Poem: Baltimore Woods

November 9, 2024September 24, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lisa Harris Central New York Branch A triple trunk beechwood makes its own trinity. Farther down the path, a black walnut’s face scrutinizes me, and asks, ‘What brings ... Read more

Featured Poem: Untimely Thoughts

October 31, 2024September 24, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Judith Crystal Greenwich Branch Looking at my iPad The number at the top left hand corner In simple sans serif numerals is 5:59 But The hand of the ... Read more

Featured Poem: Final Analysis (A True Story)

October 19, 2024September 24, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Carol White Boca Raton Branch “We’ll be slicing into your head, Mrs. White It shouldn’t hurt much, please look at the light There’s a drain in your brain ... Read more

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