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
FEATURED POEM
These are the vows
I took in silence
To love you the way you came to me
Reborn, the softest ray of sunshine
Presently unwavering
These are the songs i sung
At the sight of Twilight
The stars unappreciated but twinkling
Days shift to night
Only the candle's light chastises us
Disregarded, the time spent hating
I promise to love you in peace
And to sow an oath gradually
Teach the soul the ways of loving
In secrecy, in rebellion
I love you with the knowledge of the dark
And that forever was doomed
Since the beginning
I love you the way you might not love me
Since i wrote it in blood, stilled
~ Sarah Sodi