NLAPW Featured Poem

Featured Poem: Connections

By Patricia Daly-Lipe Jacksonville Branch, Florida Tap computer keys. Narrative is an art. Let words take over. Time passes, But, in the pockets of your mind, The past remains. ... Read more

Featured Poem: Polarization

May 15, 2023March 27, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

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: Grief

May 4, 2023May 24, 2023 NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Andrea Walker Pensacola Branch, Florida Yesterday, an old friend died, big brother to several of us when we were teens. This morning as I walk, I am warmed ... 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

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