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
Anew, yet in doom!
Pious patina of life’s passion,
In shades of worries & wonders;
Finds fullness, in nature’s casket,
Kissing the crest, heaven anigh.
Am that gale of monsoon, O greeting golden grains,
In the camouflage of dazzle, from camellia to camomile;
Smearing fragrance exotic, or colours decked bright,
Painting thoughts in this clouds, as if an artist were I.
In the bosom of mine bower, blushes cherries as red wine,
& robins, in disguise, art announcing endless love;
From thickets, even hosting lil’ cicadas at choir,
Inking tales, am immersed, in divine idle pleasure.
Vagabond in the vales, I indulge in brewing beauty
Luring mine soul with the bird of paradise;
In iris, I imbibe idyllic passion,
Imitating the tale of immortal insight.
Beyond flaws, beyond doubts, beyond spheres of existence-
Inebriated mine soul, by shades of wondrous horizon;
Which fountain the fashion of unfathomable creation,
Letting dive into the blossoms, anew yet in doom.
R.G.