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
Help! Help!
My walls have been stained again,
Graffiti gripping onto my white walls,
Halls echo with graffiti of my mother's screams smeared with tears of son when thoughts would drown...
Crown of thorns decorate my father, my savior as he laid facing death brought onto him by one's he'd saved.
Depression splattered, each spot a scent of emotional carnage trying to embody all.
Help!
And as swift as lightning touched Midgard, they arrived before tear shed
No time spared as they covered my walls with white again
Once done, like always, one question asked,
To why I always held the spray cans like killer held gun aimed at his only victim... himself