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 m_uzair_ans 11 months ago
Last commented on by m_uzair_ans 11 months ago
Apologies for this very late reply. Thank you for your kind words as well as the suggestions. If you do feature the poem...
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Started by Sarah01 11 months ago
Busy bee Do you hear the ferocious sun? You must. I wake up and I already sprint and run. Did you sneak a peek, bee? If you haven't, The birds won't sing.   I lie and i lie, for your sake- The cottage is stunted, Is hidden from death-  ...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 11 months ago
Thank you for sharing your poem.  I love your opening - " Busy bee Do you hear the ferocious sun?" "hearing" the sun...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 11 months ago
It's the happiness, That sprouts in the colour of pink, It's the cheerfulness, That lingers in the colour of yellow, It's the secularism, That waltz in a dash like some race! Despite all these colours, The fire that soothes the hearts, Become...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 11 months ago
First of all, I love the concept - the celebration of colors - the connection between colors and emotions.  I think thi...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 12 months ago
Life with no achievements!   Life seems to be in vain, For me to mourn with my unsatisfied, Unpredictable desires to accomplish! Where do I need to stroll for my destination?   Here and there my life lingers, To explore and execute more, O...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
Good Morning from Connecticut, USA.  Thank you, for once again sharing your work with me.  There is powerful emotion i...
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Started by Riya Jaiswal 12 months ago
I don't want you to listen to me fine being heard then forgotten on repeat don't decrypt- "What it meant?" There's always a thousand to mean, a thousand more to speak born to express , not to interpret I've lived in dark, I'll leave you there ...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
Yes, you certainly have the fire that ignites poetry.  This one, has some awkward wording - it's almost as if words are...
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Started by Riya Jaiswal 12 months ago
I count my mouth ulcers which multiplies everytime the truth is not spoken my emotions are there to vent not a topic for you to debate i speak truth for which I'm hated I don't speak at all for which I'm hated I hide the truth for which I'm...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
Once again, you have filled the page with powerful emotion and a raw kind of honesty that is both touching and compellin...
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Started by Riya Jaiswal 12 months ago
If I'm a disappointment give up on me then let me cradle in the  arms of solitude how does it even matter? Wasn't i a human? Or you took me literally everytime I said "I feel like an alien" It's a lie if I say i cannot loathe a lie, why? ...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
Wow!  This is a potent poem - filled with so much raw emotion.  While, you certainly have engaged me with your passion...
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Started by RG983 12 months ago
Love's Satiety hath grew! To me, O lady, thou owe a queer emotion, Which binds me to thou, in pain and pleasure; Which enbosom's thou greatness, in beauty & in minds, For thou smile is the dawn, whom the darkness doth finds. Beyond horizons of d...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
Thank you for submitting your poem here in the Chat Room.  Let me start by saying, you have some lovely, lyrical, finel...
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Started by princessjelsa 12 months ago
just wanted to share a short sweet poem i wrote when i was buying my home and moving out of my moms house : ) bee poem look up, look down scent of honey in the air spread my bee wings- and fly, it’s my turn to leave the hive. i’m my own qu...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
It's delightful.  Poetry should leave us feeling something and, your short but "sweet" poem, leaves us feeling uplifted...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 12 months ago
I am rowing a boat called "Life", And I don't know when I reach my destination, With so many flaws and claws, The path becomes more significant to watch!   Will the fate become my sun, Or will it become my thunder to concern? Destiny lies wit...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 12 months ago
Thank you for sending your very "thoughtful" poem about this journey, we are all on, called life.  I can well imagine w...