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.
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Your friend in poetry, Susan
FEATURED POEM
I write incomplete poems
And what does that mean?
Is it a banal symbolism to how incomplete I am in your absence?
But the world tells me I don't need nobody
I am flawless, valiant with no tarnish
At least that’s what I was raised to be
Is it regarding how I could never tell you how I truly felt?
As I blew the chances when I got them
And pushed you away
But how does this get resolved by walking out on me
Couldn't wait for ten after twenty days
Is it ‘cause you never knew the complete me as I kept my guard too high?
Perturbed, I did not let you in my life
Told you no disconcerted stories of mine
Honey, I was afraid to be questioned
It got none to do with you
Why do I write incomplete poems?
And what does it mean?