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
The Clock struck twelve
But I know not, how to let these thoughts shelve
How else do I plea
When everything seems to disagree?
Eventually attesting the words of my allies, that it's not my cup of tea
But does anybody really know, what to do, where to go?
For nothing here is making sense
And all I see is endless
Yet, for once I think, for once I want, for once I wish
Being the best of me is not an act too childish
And every desire of mine is a dream come true
With a never ending hope that guides me through and through
Alas! this imagination of mine is put to work
Always in the dark
Unaware of all the ifs and buts that lurk
Waiting to make a sharp remark
So is the culprit really my mind, where all my thoughts are confined?
Or is it the fault of me and my present combined
That drags me back, to a world so unkind?
Oh this war of thoughts, struck the peace of silence
And the rebel rises in the form of my poetry
For my pen doesn't know how to stop,
It goes on and on!
It goes on and on!