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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
They say,
What happens, happens for a reason;
To learn and to perhaps unlearn,
no matter what I say,
I never told you but, will today,
I cannot change what happened no matter how hard I try my way,
I can change what happens next if I could shattered my day,
I never told you but,
I have known the feeling of being scared, having to tread on the every path I dread,
Yet the feeling of being unlove in the darkness that nobody shared,
I love myself though in the dark with the hope for the sunshine to spread.
I never told you but,
I know it's bitter in the heart,
I know it's never easy with myself to depart, the heartbeat of experience displayed in the memories,
the soul of time and space shown as moments of history.
I never told you but,
It's a moonbeam unseen but bright,
which is always with me on the darkest night, telling the tale of how hopes dance with the ray,
The secret of emotions and inspiring strength of music all my way.
I never told you but,
Time is the gift never measured by cost,
just priceless minutes or hours to lost, comfort in sadness, or laughter in joy,
To a loved one, a friend or a passerby.
I never told you but,
I thought second chance was easy to get, how do I live with myself? knowing I could have nothing to breathe,
I titled towards the path,
losing myself from very start,
Chances and chances ruined every beat,
I do not wish to cuddle with regret,
I never told you but,
Should I let the past remain past..?
Or else if it eats me away at last..
What happens, happens for a reason,
though the reasons are sometimes never known,
Still, I pray this dawn comes,
Let I submerge into forever moans..
I never told you but,
for I do not know which is harder;
losing someone in death or friendship or happiness forever...
I am glad you walked away,
for I would never have let go,
I never told you but today,
After I parts my ways to sorrows and foes..
-Muskaan