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
Love's Satiety hath grew!
To me, O lady, thou owe a queer emotion,
Which binds me to thou, in pain and pleasure;
Which enbosom's thou greatness, in beauty & in minds,
For thou smile is the dawn, whom the darkness doth finds.
Beyond horizons of death, we shall raise a cottage,
& fashion those walls, with erotic paintings long lost;
Where scorpions won’t poison our pious tale of passion,
So no regret shall thrive, in heart’s small cushion.
Nought keep me patient, before li'l left days,
Of union, till then all nights fail slumber;
Shades of benevolence, have bloomed in mine bower,
Tis’ awaiting thou regard, for an eternal hour.
My lungs now taste thou neck's wondrous scent,
Which secretly thou behold, in the crevices of soul;
Lavish art those eyes, O painted in hyacinth blue-
Which engrosses in world’s wonders, & world's charmed in you…
Forbids what then thou, to glow beyond gloom,
Let despondence cease, in intimacy of thoughts;
Amour to the world, is this what concerns thou?
Then hear, O beloved,” In us love’s satiety hath grew”.
R.G.