NLAPW Poem of the Week

a new weekly poem by the women writers of the NLAPW

Featured Poem: The Gathering

By Audrey McHugh Long Island Branch Gather the children before the breaking dawn transfigures the sweetness of their youth and the lost laboring world, unsatisfied, brings their beauty to ... Read more

Featured Poem: Sally and The Light

December 22, 2022November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Louise Kantro Modesto Branch Do you mind pulling over here? Sally asks. In a flash, the camera appears in her hand. I love this old house. And the ... Read more

Featured Poem: Out of Sorts

December 9, 2022November 10, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Dorothy Atkins Santa Clara County Branch Year after year during the months of August and September when the leaves begin to turn, and that cool breeze can be felt ... Read more

Featured Poem: Word Angels

November 30, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Louise Kantro Modesto Branch Like a dancer beginning the dance lightly on your ballet slippers you float, swoop, glide on your magic carpet across lines and white spaces. ... Read more

Featured Poem: Pain

November 16, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Carol H Ehrlich Denver Branch ‘A number between one and ten?” He asks in flat voice as though that’s all it is. A number. Pain is more ... Read more

Featured Art and Poem: My Sleeping Beauty & Life in My ’80s

November 10, 2022November 3, 2022 Art of the Week, Featured Art, Featured Poem, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

“My Sleeping Beauty,” 12×16 acrylic by Marie Francis Life in My ’80s By Marie Francis I just turned the big 8 0! Today I tripped and broke my ... Read more

Featured Poem: The Step

November 2, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral, Florida Branch She emerges from the rehab center like a wounded bird let loose into the sky after being nursed back to health. ... Read more

Featured Poem: Water Girl

October 20, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Margaret L. Hanna Central Ohio Branch As tall as my viburnum bush Stone girl stands Empty water well at her side. She waits. Cement bucket at her bare ... Read more

Featured Poem: Golden Hope

October 7, 2022September 6, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Lori Zavada Pensacola Branch It sounds like God hurling boulders to Earth, but they never land. I wake to the thunder, and think of you. Blasting ... Read more

Featured Poem: Too Many Zucchini? Just Call Grandma

September 27, 2022August 3, 2022 Featured Poem, NLAPW, NLAPW Featured Poem, NLAPW Poem of the Week

By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch Our garden’s growing dinosaur food! The vines are invading our yard! I use one to “call” my grandma. She says she ... Read more

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