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
I am All broken from inside,
With the ring of pain constricting,
Finding no place to seek and hide,
From all of the shortcomings.
The world has become a pit of fire,
With its evil smoke polluting my soul.
With the heat of its lies burning my heart.
With its impure beauty dazzling my eyes.
With its changing colors deceiving my mind.
All of its roads have been fogged with the smoke,
Blurring up my vision,
Locking me up, with no place to seek and hide.
With demonic acts flourishing in open and in close,
Murdering righteousness in every soul.
Now it is upon us to decide,
Whether the Phoenix will rise from its ashes,
Or will it be blown off by the smoke.
Even though the demon’s rise,
There is something in me that tells,
Have Faith, Have Faith,
The best of the planners is on our side.
:-Mohammad Owais (Student)
St. Francis’ College.