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 looked into the mirror
Darkness surrounded me
Speaking to me as if it wanted me to enter
Faces appearing
Smiling at me but not with kindness
Shadow hands stretching out of the glass
Grabbing me
Pulling me
Trying to take me into the mirror
My face no longer mine
A grim face
A horror smile
The darkness swallows me whole
I have lost all control
As they look into the mirror
No one knows
That I am lost inside a dark and deep hole
Seeing all the faces as they look
Smile an honest smile
I am in there all alone
For each smile
Wishing to die