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
A sensation of homesick
Was left in the heart of the unborn
For being relocated from her womb
Which she called her home.
Emigrated to an afterworld
Of darkness and death
Fantasizing about her mother's womb,
Was what made her tranquility disrupt.
Being killed off
Before she could see the outside light
Made her question God
As to why he didn't give her the body parts
And gender
That her family wanted to ever see...
- Saahil Harisinganey (the_artriter)