NLAPW Featured Poem

Featured Poem: Circle of Time

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

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

Featured Poem: Skin

January 31, 2019January 11, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch, California I just read that the African spiny mouse has the thinnest skin in the world. That’s interesting. I thought I did. And ... Read more

Featured Poem: Morning Prayer

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

Dorothy KammVero Beach, Florida Most mornings I pray when I drink coffee but today I’m watching seven grackles at the edge of a neighbor’s roof puff up their ... Read more

Featured Poem: Legacy of Love

January 10, 2019January 2, 2019 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Anne Bonner Cape Canaveral Branch as the old lady stares into space slender twig bent and broken I remember Mama a beautiful young blossom role model in days past admonishing ... Read more

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