Featured Poem

Featured Poem: Slammed

Cornelia DeDona Member-at-large, Kingston, New York I slammed my heart into love’s door bloodied and bruised it swelled on the other side of a reckoning exacted its price no ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Decision

May 14, 2019May 1, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

Elizabeth Diane Martin Pikes Peak Branch, Colorado In turmoil and distrust In the midst of fear and confusion A decision to love Changed a wandering Wondering heart Into one ... Read more

Featured Poem: Circle of Time

April 30, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

Linda Farmer Ames Columbus Branch, Georgia I, mighty oak, have stood rooted here for greater than one hundred years, surrounded by brothers and sisters, all of Mother Nature’s children. ... Read more

Featured Poem: English Class

April 23, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Donna DeLeo Bruno Ft. Lauderdale Branch I stand before my teenage students Speaking of Homer’s “Odyssey,” Of Penelope, Ulysses’ faithful and long-suffering wife Who ... Read more

Featured Poem: Love’s Little Park

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem

Bette J. Lafferty Tampa Branch, Florida It has been years since we first came to this little park, where young saplings with limbs so strong reached to the heavens ... Read more

Featured Poem: A Friend’s Gift

March 13, 2019February 1, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Grady Sue Loftin Saxon Alabama Birmingham Branch I looked up just as she slipped through the open doorway of the hospital waiting room that was filled with my ... Read more

Featured Poem: Naked Bruises

March 5, 2019January 15, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Kim Beardsley-Garrison Palm Springs Branch The naked eye chooses to believe What the mind chooses to ignore. Pretend smiles and positive words Proclaim a happy mood, But not all bruises ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sea Oats

February 22, 2019January 11, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Fern Overvold Atlanta Branch Tall and slender the sea oats bow to one another without breaking. Something in their sandy shoes allows them to tilt from their toes, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Blizzard

February 14, 2019March 13, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Carolyn AuneMinnesota Branch Ah, the late January malaise. How about a rip-roaring blizzard To break the monotony! How about a blizzard so grand and fierce That it ... Read more

Your Poems Wanted!

February 12, 2019February 9, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Karen McAferty Morris, Poetry Editor I’ve been poetry editor since November 2018, and I love to open my email and see poetry submissions. If you’ve been thinking of submitting ... Read more

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