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
My desire to belong brings me out of my bubble.
I can't stop believing that there is something greater than 'ME'.
My curiosity is almost convinced that every universe contained in all the 'ME' in this world have the same raw , something so ... basic and foundational that connects all of them.
But then belonging isn't easy thing .
Belonging ,that can reject you,
Can leave you the halfway,
Can thrash you for your efforts,
After going every here and there,
towards all known and unknown stuff,
After every acceptance and abundance ,
I strongly claim my belonging to the existing epitome of beauty of this cosmos and at the same time to the nothingness , creation and destruction ,constant and change and another lot of things which makes me a mortal yet permanent example of beautiful existence from nothing to something and then nothing like sandcastles ,ice sculptures , sunsets ,stardust and withering flowers .