NLAPW Poem of the Week

a new weekly poem by the women writers of the NLAPW

Featured Poem: My Words Slip

By Annette Gagliardi Des Mones Branch from my lips, down the cleft of my chin, to hide beneath my left breast like shy children. They grow thin and dissipate ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sitting in Silence

July 18, 2024July 10, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

(Tanka) by Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-large sitting in silence the fog of all this living slowly dissipates like clouds clearing at sunset like longing when it finds home

Featured Poem: Punctuated

July 12, 2024May 28, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch, Florida Mornings elude me. I don’t come alive till noon, but today, rising at 6AM, I headed to the marsh for a glimpse of ... Read more

Featured Poem: Arctic Summer

July 6, 2024May 28, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lynn Hansen Modesto Branch, California When brilliant light is dancing in Arctic summer skies kittiwakes bathe in icy pools, green or aqua blue in the land of midnight ... Read more

Featured Poem: Reflections

June 28, 2024June 29, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch In the mirror I call out to her. Her reflection, so youthful. Eager, hopeful. I call to her, warn her. It goes ... Read more

Featured Poem: An Event of Astronomical Proportions

June 12, 2024May 28, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California One summer night over twenty years ago a once-in-a-lifetime meteorite streaked across the entire sky over Yosemite Valley, creating the illusion of daylight ... Read more

Featured Poem: Fruitless Attempt

June 6, 2024May 28, 2024 Featured Poem, Latest News, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Megha Sood Member-at-large Thin corridors of silence cave in as I walk through them— my elbow grazing old memories and reshuffling feathers of time. I know this ... Read more

Featured Poem: Poetry is Medicinal

May 28, 2024April 26, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch, California (a trimeric) Write a sonnet! You will forget your ailments as you struggle to rhyme, while maintaining the prescribed meter. You ... Read more

Featured Poem: Topical

April 27, 2024April 26, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida Topical methods of applying medications to the skin are used by practioners all over the world to alleviate pain. What ... Read more

Featured Poem: Buttons

March 26, 2024February 27, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Nancy Haskett Modesto Branch An old round tin, perhaps once filled with candy, is slightly dented by years of use, the lid printed with a scene of palm ... Read more

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