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
I write a lot,
And try to convey
Those emotions in words
Which I may never say.
It just takes that poetic eye,
And a poetic soul, and a poetic mind
To decipher and unscramble those lines,
And read the feelings,
From those metaphoric signs.
The quill bleeds each day,
"The day was nothing but same,
The day wasted, maybe I am to blame...
What is to be done now?- the question which arises.
Am I, distancing myself, from those lovely prizes?"
The pen writes words,
And the paper attends scenes.
Those petty life segments,
Which I narrate with peace.
It never tells me what to do,
And maybe that is what I want
It couldn't tell me where I went wrong,
Maybe that is what I sought.
Want to vent it all out,
Want to escape the world
N' confide into those bindings,
Of those clueless papers.
It's not that I am lonely,
Or have no one to confide,
But those emotions of my spirit,
No human can suffice.