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
Dreams within hoping to be true
Reaching the skies so blue
The reason for this
Is the secret of bliss.
To fly so high flapping my wings
Into the deep sinking sea
I recall how I rose up
Amidst all the barriers
And trials immense.
All I wanted and ought to be,
Surprising it turned out to be.
Nothing but my destiny.
The journey was too long
Carried on my shoulders strong
Exhausted till I dropped,
Dissatisfaction maybe
Each time I persevere
With dedication and sincerity.
I get to know it’s incomplete
And room for improvement.
All I needed is guidance
For what was right and just.
That’s the motivation
That carved my destiny.
Candice M