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
You are drawn to chaos,
You like the screams that don’t let you sleep
You crave for the chaos
That doesn't let you sleep.
You are enchanted by the illusions —
The illusions that haunt you in daylight
You are enamoured by the illusion
That you see in broad daylight.
In plain sight like a devil in the dark,
The shadows know your reality
While the light hides the façade
That you can see in the dark.
You see it, you know it
And you crave it
Yet, you wear new clothes on your rotten skin
Because I know that you know it.
You look at chaos with lecherous eyes
And make love to the demons that don’t let you sleep.
Then you pity yourself
And drown in it as you weep.
You let your illusions guide you;
The illusions that haunt you in broad daylight.
They are the ones that will kill you
When you try to sleep at night.