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
So many questions remained unanswered in depths of our heart.
Continuing life like nothing happened has became a common art.
Like a moon hiding behind the dark clouds of the night.
Somewhere in the long way, we have lost our will to fight.
People stopped living and started learning the ways to survive and to pretend.
They gave up hopes and dreams and became an empty space which has no start, no end.
Life became a painful cycle where misery repeats itself in every turn.
Like a giant curse struck mankind with the point of no return.
Eyes are dead, words are shallow and feelings became numb in this life forever.
Just like how a dead fish which goes with the flow in the river.
How long will you pretend that everything is normal and it is the way it is.
Not every wind that travels can become a cool breeze.
Why we get only nightmares that are attached to our heart way too deep.
Why do we have to wake up everyday all of a sudden from our deep sleep.
How long should we continue to weep with these unshed tears from our eyes.
How long should we continue to survive in this fake happiness, in this one big lie.
I am done with this dark empty night, neither I wish to see sunshine in the dawn of tomorrow.
All I wish is to close my eyes and see nothing, feel nothing, do nothing and hope this will end my sorrow.