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
The Genesis of my woeful yelp
rendering at the vale of
your pyre !
You entered in me,
as a subtle soul.
The tumbles of my transience,
ended there,
and I am, the immortal verve !
The ravages of this world,
immolating in the shrines
of our endless feelings.
The verses of our days
dripping through the embers of our nights.
The desirous sparks,
ending in the blazed valance..
And we are cursing the collusion
of the time.
The hastening storms,
these unforseen dejects,
and these encroached moments
are wiping out by the heartless time !
The culpability
of my feebled self,
enacting as an affable drift
I know,
The gaze of your urge
protecting the elation of my cells !