Poetry Talk

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

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I still haven't known you enough! (1 reply and 1 comment)

Akansha Deshmukh
4 years ago
Akansha Deshmukh 4 years ago

I still haven't known you enough

I know I run to you when i stumble upon a hitch

And you always serve beautiful solutions in decorated platters

But how come you don't come and crib about something similar?

 

I don't know if you are a particular brand of mousy or a cringe

I don't know if you like sugar, honey, tea or something more sweet, totally unhinged

I don't know if you like reading poetry anthalogies, fictional stories or binge watch web series

I don't know if you like decorating your room, fill dandelions with our memories

I don't know if you like the color white, black or grey

 

Would you like your wall painted blue by me?

Color of the sky, color of the sea

Maybe you are old fashioned, the one which people treasure

Or maybe you are secretly romantic, dreaming about our 80s together

Sometimes you choose from 'Aap', 'Tum' and 'Tu'

And the other moment you jump to 'Bruh'

 

You never tell me

If you also have a list of heartbreaks and silent cries

Lying pseudo promises and notes of goodbyes

And if your dreams go on a curfew just like mine

I am trying hard to listen

But cannot hear anything 

I'm telling

I still haven't known you enough!

 

Susan Katz
4 years ago
Susan Katz 4 years ago

Thank you so much for sharing your poem and submitting it for consideration for Featured Poem of the Month.  You have some deep thoughts and fine images in your poem.  - Susan

Akansha Deshmukh
4 years ago

Hey! Thankyou so much. Glad you liked it 🙂

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