NLAPW Poem of the Week

a new weekly poem by the women writers of the NLAPW

Featured Poem: Furious, Too

Diane McDonough Cape Cod Branch (after reading fury by Lucille Clifton) Mama’s hand delivers rhymed and metered stanzas natural as blue trumpets of a morning glory vine unfolding ... Read more

Featured Poem: Canvas of Life

September 24, 2018September 21, 2018 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Barbara Clarke Atlanta Chapter Life’s journey is played out beginning on the upper part of the canvas bright colors are intermingled at the entrance of a new soul. Love ... Read more

Featured Poem: Genetically Modified

September 10, 2018September 21, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Cornelia DeDona Member at Large, New York It was December of 2012. Dad was almost eighty. Dementia had erased his hunger. He’d subsisted the last few years on cheap cereal ... Read more

Poem of the Week: Truth

July 11, 2018July 10, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large (Maine) Middle English “trewthe,” from Old English “trēowth” — fidelity; akin to Old English “trēowe” — faithful — before 1100s “You can’t handle the truth,” ... Read more

Poem of the Week: Mimosas

June 20, 2018June 19, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch, NM Yesterday, I walked under a canopy of mimosa trees, Maybe a dozen, Who could count the fragrance was so intoxicating, The shade so soothing. ... Read more

Poem of the Week: Surprise

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Elizabeth Yale Bayou City II I could smell it as soon as I walked in the door breakfast pancakes, oil on the cast iron skillet his face so endearing, ... Read more

Poem of the Week: The Grass Is Damp

May 30, 2018May 27, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City ll Branch, Texas The grass is damp with crystalline dew Orderly white gravestones They’re wet too The flags are lowered Until dawn What leaps ... Read more

Poem of the Week: Apology in D Minor

May 23, 2018May 21, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Barbara Sillery Cape Cod Branch The sky is falling. There’s a hole in the ground. Hug me. Hug me, now. The road is too narrow. The hill is ... Read more

Poem of the Week: My Poem Placed!

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch A friend said I must be jumping out of my skin That’s quite a picture I see my outsides crumpled to the floor ... Read more

Poem of the Week: Comedy

March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

by Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large Comedy: Middle English, from Medieval Latin comoedia, from Latin, drama with a happy ending, from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmos revel + aeidein to sing 1300s Fifty years ago Carol ... Read more

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