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.
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Your friend in poetry, Susan
FEATURED POEM
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 with someone new everyday
but by design
you are her destination
and she is on her way,
a voyeuristic journey
of unsatisfying urges
and peaking curiosities,
woefully waiting and watching for a
long 19 years
of child imitating old woman
looking deadly
with her hunger appeased
never knowing peace like it
and it could feel like forever,
like how like never
learns to love.
It's not how a 19 year old
should
love
but its complicated;
dreaming while living,
the potential of that cold cup of coffee
waking up warm in the sunlight
(in which you are the sun,
and the coffee)
that those stars could be suns,
and those sun's galaxies,
and in a week the strange rotting imitating life once again
so discreetly,
not exactly ceased,
as they travel back again
through time,
it happens.
She's just beginning.
yet everyone tells her
its just a 19 year olds crush.
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