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
I would have loved thee more
--- Srijit Raha
I would have loved thee more
I wished thee stay for aye
Gripping my arms in breast of yours
So dimmed my wits that believed this life
But failed to notice its shadow.
Now I score thy grave to see thee more
And sleep with thee in this dark meadow.
My prose for thee have grown into weeds
So stiff, so pale...
With lifeless views.
My blood had shrank in inks of nibs
That sketches the ribs of yours.
I smell thy hairs
I smell thy torcs
And kiss it over and over
To cry in thee,
To be in thee,
To fade in thee forever.
Srijit Raha