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
*Just come to my grave*:
I know sometimes I get mad,
I know it is called as a daydream.
I know you are not listening to me,
No matter how loudly I scream.
My heart is not ready to accept,
Your memories are haunting my soul.
To keep you alive in my every part,
I killed myself as a whole.
I never asked too much,
Just craved for your presence.
So many people around,
Yet I just focus on your absence.
I know we are not meant to be together,
But I still miss you everyday.
Leaving was never allowed you said,
But unexpectedly you didn't stay.
I thought I'll be okay someday,
I forgot that a part in me died.
I did every possible thing to not think of you,
Till the end I tried,till the end I cried.
You made me a writer,you made me a reader,
You made me happy,you made me sad.
Now I am all alone on this way of darkness,
You were all I had.
The day I leave forever,
I know for you things will be the same.
Just come to my grave and write your initials,
So what if I can not live with you here,atleast I can die hugging your name.
PALAK JATWANI
@_apoeticjourney__