Welcome to my Poet Lady Chat Room. I would like to invite you to click on the chat box and type in a question, a suggestion, submit a poem, in other words – “chat with me.” I may, if you submit a poem, decide to feature it in my Poem of the Week section or, we may simply exchange ideas and suggestions about your poem.

This is a place to “talk” poetry with someone who has loved it all her life. I have a true passion for the possibilities of poetry and would love to hear your thoughts and/or read your poem. I will be happy to offer my reaction to your work and, based on over 40 years of teaching poetry, organizing, and conducting poetry workshops, working as a book review editor for an international poetry magazine, authoring five books of poetry and two textbooks on teaching poetry, send along my thoughts on ways to make your poem stronger and more impactful.

If you’re on my site, you have a connection to poetry. Feel free to connect with me – right here -right now, by typing your message into the “chat box” and clicking send. I’m waiting…

 

Your friend in poetry, Susan

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Started by Comfort 6 days ago
I miss you there Where your smile was frozen Before I had to taste your absenceBefore each substance... I miss you here I miss you before pupils had to learn to accept you were past tense I stare at your picture hoping you'd jump out saying it was a...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 6 days ago
Touching - moving - a heartbeat of emotion and truth and loss.  You do a fine job with rhyme and slant rhyme but perhap...
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Started by Comfort 6 days ago
I can still taste you "he said"  Another drink please Another escape please, another concussion to help me forget please.  I can still taste my sins  Another drink please,  Another relief to get me close to the reef, I'm trying to drown my.....
Last replied to by Susan Katz 6 days ago
This is a truly intriguing poem - written in a kind of staccato rhythm that is compelling - you just want to keep readin...
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Started by Sarah01 2 months ago
The flowers in my room bleed out          rouge de red musing its ethos by the bedside scoffs  Regret with vixen eyes and smile vile  Rots in my mouth a taste of insignificant, Clueless asked past omniscient did we matter/  do you remem...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 1 month ago
Good morning, Sarah, I'm sorry for the delay in getting this email to you - it's been a busy few days. Your poem has p...
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Started by Dreamer 9 months ago
To stand in a room of faceless screams, To reach out for hands with no fingers,To cry out to these soulless veiled figures.And I keep trying to run, run away, but whyare my legs chained? Chained to nothing.....Maybe if I plead they would let me run. ...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 9 months ago
Thank you for sharing your very powerful poem - filled with energy and an intensity that one can feel.  If I were to su...
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Started by Aviana 12 months ago
Blood flows into the rivers,Into tree roots, into flowersThat bloom and speak Into our deafness. Unheard melodies Of souls sting,Harmonious voices,Of the dying, sing A song into the wind that reeksOf never ending dusk.Somewhere.Far away.Somewhere wi...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to respond to your very evocative and well written poem.  I have been in hos...
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Started by Comfort 1 year ago
In the script of life's stage, I'm the jest,A punchline scrawled by hands unsure, distressed.Dangling on the margins, on edges I tread,Existence penned in a comedy where sadness is fed. Unsteady hands sketch this bleak refrain,My role, a punchline i...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 1 year ago
This is very well written and invites us into your pain and your emotion.  I do have a few suggestions regarding editin...
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Started by NorwegianSoul 1 year ago
I looked into the mirror Darkness surrounded me Speaking to me as if it wanted me to enter Faces appearing Smiling at me but not with kindnessShadow hands stretching out of the glassGrabbing me Pulling me Trying to take me into the mirror My face no ...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing your poem with me.  There is a lot that works here and some very fine moments as you move through...
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Started by Fahad Khalique 1 year ago
I don't know about others, but  As anything puts all efforts To come into existence; like  A tiny seed tears apart  The hard soil before growing Same way; like  A mother experiences latitude Before bearing a child And the gestural conditi...
Last commented on by Fahad Khalique 1 year ago
Gratitude Galore. What if I exclude the line from (The Contingency.....final status)?
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Started by Tiny glowing star 1 year ago
This soul This heart Always engaged in, Faraway troubles Of my loved ones... I cannot even build A shield for them, For I have always been a onlooker, Unable to even speak for myself.... This soul This heart Has long stopped, Responding t...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 1 year ago
Thanks so much for sharing this very heartfelt poem with me.  I wonder if "build a shield" is not "be a shield..."  Yo...
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Started by sunsnotstars 1 year ago
You have been a 19 year olds crush for almost a year now  and yet of all the dreams holding hands with her smiling  'I dont knows'  with all the 'some flings' in this world  she loves you. where by easy accidents  like falling in love...
Last commented on by Susan Katz 1 year ago
I am always delighted to "meet" people who share my love of creative expression. In a world of darkness - the arts are ...