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
… and so, they asked.
And like a flower blooming, I opened and showed them my truth,
I became a glass house, parts of me hanged, windows shattered with stains of blood, a warning, not to seek to see yourself in the reflection of I, for I am shattered.
Tears fell for the first time that wasn’t from the whipping of the belts or from a fist that was meant to be a hand that cradles me,
And as my lips sealed,
The silence echoed, and in that moment… in that moment I’d hoped home wouldn’t just shelter my body but maybe it might shelter my heart too.
‘’disappointment”
“Disrespectful”
“ungrateful”
how I wish my lips had never spoken, had never opened, had never shown a part of me that needs your understanding, do you understand how I…
“I’m sorry for my disrespect, please forgive me”