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 Tiny glowing star 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Thank you for sending your very "thoughtful" poem about this journey, we are all on, called life.  I can well imagine w...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 2 years ago
I am not what you think! People are sure on strolls,To pass on the critical judgement,I am no more than a pursuer,Swirling over my lifeless goals!I won't let people to judge me,I judge my own self through time,Breaking through the walls of nine,Clas...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 2 years ago
Thank you, for once again, sending a heartfelt and self-reflective poem.  I can tell you write from the heart.  Again,...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 2 years ago
Victory like a mountain!   A mountain is so high and steep, So daring enough to make me deep, In thoughts of reluctance, He looks so mighty like a king!   I know another friend of him, Who is the victory placed quite afar, Someone unable t...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 2 years ago
You are definitely a most prolific writer.  I very much enjoy receiving your work.  I like your opening line - it's po...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 2 years ago
He who renovated,The poem world,With only intriguing sword,Of provoking words and phrases,He made up his symbol,In the minds of souls,Who were actually fascinated,With his waltz of words in rolls! - Swetha.  
Last replied to by Susan Katz 2 years ago
You are definitely a prolific writer - and I love that.  It is who poets are and what they do - write poems.  I would ...