Featured Poem

Featured Poem: Polarization

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

April 27, 2023March 27, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

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

Featured Poem: We Gathered in the Garden

April 18, 2023March 27, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch “The ladies,” we were called by the neighbors, our husbands, even our children. Noontime chores over, kitchens cleaned up, an hour welcome respite ... Read more

Featured Poem: Bare Branches

April 6, 2023March 27, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lorraine Walker Williams Member-at-large, California and Florida Have nothing to hide, they are truth-tellers. Keep promises that leaves will appear season after season, year after year. ... Read more

Celebrate National Poetry Month

April 3, 2023March 27, 2023 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

A Message from Claire Massey, NLAPW Poetry Editor April is the month to celebrate the power and potential of poetry to rock our world! Poems can widen eyes; broaden minds; ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Immigrant in 1900

March 20, 2023February 16, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California The Immigrant in 1900 knows steerage and squalor, suspenders, shirts of heavy ticking; labors in a Lower East Side sweatshop filled with whirring ... Read more

Featured Poem: Lists

March 10, 2023February 8, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara J. Dunham Pensacola Branch On the nightstand to record stray thoughts, Kitchen table, things I bought, Pocket of robe, soon to be washed, Near the trash can, ... Read more

Featured Poem: Erasure

March 1, 2023February 8, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Megha Sood, member-at-large Thoughts of you are stitching an afternoon for me. Longing for you has shred it into pieces. Silence has morphed and shaped itself around ... Read more

Featured Poem: I Want The World I Used To Know

February 16, 2023February 8, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Jane Gates Lies Pensacola Branch, Pensacola I want the world I used to know The one that Was only mine, Of comfort, Of queens, Of dolls, And ... Read more

Featured Poem: Winter’s Relics

February 10, 2023November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Virginia Nygard Vero Beach Branch Across the barren snow-steeped ridge skeleton trees appear dry and bare yet seem to wake as I near the bridge and my heart ... Read more

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