NLAPW Poem of the Week

a new weekly poem by the women writers of the NLAPW

Featured Poem: The Long Winter of Cancer

By Martha Steger Member-at-large The sun’s brightest rays fall on another hemisphere. I lie trapped in long frozen night as wakening quail summons its might to chip through icy ... Read more

Feature Poem: Widow

March 7, 2024December 22, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch (Florida) You are no longer suffering, “in a better place.” I’m glad for that. But that place is not with me anymore. ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sea Oats

February 22, 2024December 22, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Fern Overvold Atlanta Branch (Georgia) Tall and slender the sea oats bow to one another without breaking. Something in their sandy shoes allows them to tilt from their ... Read more

Featured Poem: Treading Water

February 9, 2024January 29, 2024 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Sally Wahl Constain Jacksonville Branch (Florida) One of the first things we learned way back then in Camp Tioga was how to float, front and back and how ... Read more

Featured Poem: When Day Dies

January 25, 2024December 22, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch (Texas) When day dies and shadows are no longer shade Now silhouettes and things Of which imaginations made And the wind ordinary by ... Read more

Featured Poem: Winter’s Arrival

January 10, 2024December 22, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Bette Lafferty Tampa Branch (Florida) A blast of frigid Arctic air thundered into the Texas Hill Country during the night rattling the windowpanes. The trees danced to the rhyme ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Back Nine

December 29, 2023October 25, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Carol Ehrlich Denver Branch I travel the back nine in a reverie, absorbed in the sweet reward of nearing completion, all the time sorry to see the game ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Bald Eagle

December 14, 2023December 22, 2023 NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Fern Overvold Atlanta Branch Sailing out of Frenchman’s Bay, wind from the North snatches the sails, whipping out the wrinkles, starching the canvas in tight curves that point ... Read more

Featured Poem: Shadow First

November 30, 2023December 22, 2023 NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara Dunham Pensacola Branch I see your shadow first, gliding above. You alight in the uppermost branches of a nearby tree. Then the conversation begins. A sound only ... Read more

Featured Poem: Kintsugi*

November 24, 2023October 25, 2023 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch Mended in the broken places With golden glue, So you embrace The pain and missing faces And make a work of art ... Read more

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