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
It’s hard, so hard to show my weakness. My heart cripples when I think of someone reading it.
Let your heart beat and your hope breed,
A fire in the rain lights itself to be
the light in the bottomless wreck,
the tender warmth in the unknown sea.
A guiltless venture, a flourishing seed,
Through the holes in the glass you see
a time beyond the fate concealed,
a string tied to the Garden of Dreams.
Happiness noticed in rare eyes, gleams
like the sun that casts a shadow upon all evil,
like a child that begs to be noticed, so unlike
greed that shoulders a heavy burden.
A story told, a burden removed,
Tick-tock, your heart weighs upon
the smile so predictable, the step forward,
But if it all goes wrong, then boom
your hearts breaks into tiny pieces of glass.