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
unknown friend travelled all long from east with the sun and sets in the west.
I met a traveler from an antique land of sonets,
lost herself in her own world.
She brought the sunshine from the east for the west to shine more brighter than she thought
And poised herself for me i guess
God send her what all was same in us to show
you won’t know why, and you can’t say how
Such change upon you came,
But – once you shared your life to eachother
You’ll never be quite the same
Few days passed by-
One day suddenly she sat beside me
And i was unknowingly uttering shattering
And was not stopping by,
She kept her eyes on me and slowly gradually she started starring at me...
I asked her what is it all about..
She kept quite for a while and said i am at ease.
That day she went and what thought she got in her mind
She never told to me still
where she already has kick started with it
I was asked to describe myslef in few lines...
But my pages where almost getting filled with ink everyday
And she said me this is just a start not enough for book to go
Take your time i am writing too..
Now you have become my poetry
Dont let me down
We started our journey as amity to make it fest
Let now world judge our benevolence
and see how east met west.
—-bayjool