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
Walk a lonely path
Dusty and broken
Winds gushing on my face
Pushing me to change my way
A broken house by the road
Withered ,broken in places
Yet standing still with its foundation intact
Broken yet not destroyed
Not a single bird or a plant seen
As if death,Surrounding the road
Waiting to take what it wants
Chasing after anyone on the path
With the last ray of the twilight
The night draws near
The end of path draws no close
The air turns cold stale
As if she herself exhaled her life away
In the distance a single lamp lights
Illuminating a path familiar in make
A path that I chose not to take before
The path I left to walk on this
Withered road
The wind itself pushing me on the path
Though end of this path too not visible
The fragnance of flowers the
Life in the atmosphere allures me to it
Distant I see a house,
Maybe this path leads me home
Change is necessary
For we all are looking our way home
~writerin_closet