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.
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Your friend in poetry, Susan
FEATURED POEM
Watch the sun, as it bows
Fades into the evening gleam
Sky screams a voice so loud
Soul throbs to its every beat
To some it is a mystic state
To some a confusing prose
I do not know what it is to me
Maybe one or maybe both
Dead words mine make no sense
Penning voices of my head
Reminiscing those times bygone
Come close, lend your soul
Hear me tell feelings mine
Before whispers vanish, and death arrives
Heart that kept all secrets safe
Is in throbbing pain cannot inhale
All it craves is to shout so loud
Unstring unhook disclose reveal
What it hid from people known
Yet the mind does not budge
Does not fall for its sly traps
All i beg is escape
From constant battles of mind and heart
O' you the friend who could just see
Things i showed not to the bees
Even though i tried to keep
Worries that would otherwise peep
But that simply gorgeous slip
Did let you know my secret scars
Did let you know that teary part
Ever since you left for the open road
To be a big man in the mortal dorm
To carve your name in the wild storm
To be the kid your mum would want
I know you cried and i did too
Treacherous world parted us in two
Oh so far we've come along
Distances between us have so much grown
Heavenly string hold us close
Let my tear drops fuel you more
I still ponder about those cute days
My stupid jokes and your laughing face
Hours of talk and those summer race
How i would beat you at every game
Now i sit with memories frail
Traveller of this desolate mze
Battles inside grows so loud
Save me from this fire wild
Mute i am, only teary smiles
Mute i am, only teary smiles