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 might think this,
As it's often spoken;
That whatever breaks,
Is forever broken.
But let me say that,
It's just partly true;
Picking up the pieces,
Is totally up to you.
What you don't see is,
That it had been in fact;
So utterly meaningless,
When it was intact.
The cracks on it now,
Might seem chaotic;
But it's journey so far,
Holds a beauty poetic.
Every crack an adornment,
A wound healed with care;
And every blemish again,
An experience to share.
It's very easy to obsess,
Over what you lose;
But to reckon what you got,
Should you ever choose.
Surely one day you'll find,
Gone is it's ennui prosaic;
And now the broken pieces,
Make a beautiful mosaic.
(Ig: @m_uzair_ans)