Poetry Talk

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

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Dalliance (1 reply)

Kellyqueen
3 years ago
Kellyqueen 3 years ago

If someday the moon falls down

call me by my name, 

I'll be there for you 

with full of stars in my hand! 

~kellyqueen 

Susan Katz
3 years ago
Susan Katz 3 years ago

I really like this very short, but very meaningful poem.  I would like to suggest that you rethink the order of the words in the last line.  It doesn't come across the way it should - it's not "full of stars in my hand" so much as it is, a hand full of stars.  In any event, I would, if you would consider a bit of rearranging of words in the last line, very much like to feature it, in the next couple of weeks, on the poetladykatz Instagram page.  Let me know and thank you so very much for sharing your work with me, Susan

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