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
With dry days, with heat waves of june I write, with all the deja vu, I write you this invite,
Bring along some joy and some surprise
We would greet, chasing our own butterflies.
Let's talk, talk all through the night
and chase the dawn before it gets bright.
With barefoot and with the glow in our eyes,
We would run, chasing our own butterflies.
Be it our good times or be it a big fight,
Never could I, never would I keep you out of my sight.
Under our own clouds, under our own skies,
We would dance and dance chasing our own butterflies.
Listening to our heart when things won't get right,
We got to hold ourselves, hold really tight.
To all the laughters and to all the cries,
We would laugh again, chasing our own butterflies.
There will be dark again and there will be again light,
The sea will again be calm and all quite.
Yet after all the farewells and all the goodbyes,
We would meet again, chasing our own butterflies.