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 past for the future, tis’ present of ours,
Time, tis’ strong fleeting- for us to count;
Few minutes, which art left to reach the end;
O don’t fail mine words, tis’ not end to life;
Ah! Am welcome to expound, the vastness of being.
But if ye art finding, everlasting true presence,
The frame shall forbid ye wish to last;
Oh! A way-out is there, to work out in present,
Tis’ ye deeds to perform, with fineness in the passing space;
With determination to dream the daylight of destiny,
Falling on ye; sprinkling success to paint,
Desires, with blissful mind & peaceful soul.
Holy Bible, tis’ suggesting, “Never waste precious time”,
For failure seems weary, when dreaming- A crime.
-R.G.