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
-(submission for feature of the week poem)
They say,
when the world is suffering
we need shielding
But what we also need
is soothing!
What we need the most
is an extended hand of help
The question isn't about
who is mighty- the sword or the pen?
Because the world need every bit
Of support by men and women
What we need the most
Is an extended hand of help
The hands of those
Who can help by protecting,
And the hands of the others
Who can help by supporting
We need the hands
Wearing gloves, soaked in blood
We need the hands
Soaked in paint, painting a potrait
All we need, is what you have to offer
All we need, is an extended hand of help
Because in this battle of suffering
We're all trying to heal
And we're all healers.