Featured Poem: Something Blue
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By Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts She sets the table, stirs applesauce scented with cinnamon and cloves simmering on the stove. No words pass between them as he ... Read more
Featured Poem: Sensational 2020 Symphony
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By Deborah A. Dickinson-Deacon Western New York Branch Wide open kitchen window reveals: Westerly winds that whisper warmly. Dove coos in calming clarity. Cardinal and robin each perform ... Read more
Featured Poem: A Need for Healing
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By Ann Marie Vale Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts A desire to reach out in love With the grace bestowed from God above, Offering a fervent prayer for each other ... Read more
Featured Poem: The Joy of Color
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By Bette Lafferty Temple Terrace Branch, Tampa, Florida Growing older has not diminished the joy I feel when viewing a new box of crayons, or the paint samples at ... Read more
Featured Poem: Waiting
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By Susan Wurtzburg Honolulu Branch, Hawaii When I was a child, I was always waiting. “Once you are bigger, you can stay up late.” Early to bed – ... Read more
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Dear Pen Women blog readers, We’ve noticed we haven’t see your lovely comments to poems and art in a few weeks. We missed you! It turned out, there ... Read more
Featured Poem: Music
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By Dawn Huntley Spitz Sarasota Branch, Florida A song can soothe a sorrowing soul, Can help a heart to heal, Can make a broken spirt ... Read more
Featured Poem: Altogether — In response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis
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By Mary Joan Meagher Minnesota Branch Every day we watch the walkers march in their journey to find justice. Help us walk among these Pilgrims who search for ... Read more
Featured Poem: Woman Warrior
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By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida She stands, left hand on hip, before the bathroom mirror. She applies her eyebrow color, eyelid and lip liner ... Read more
Featured Poem: O Pandora
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By Monita Soni Huntsville Branch, Alabama When Zeus created you, “O Gifted One,” Athena clad your innocence in a silver gown, Taught your hands to weave and stitch ... Read more