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
Drunk dust desert dreams
Call
To the cracked-hearted,
Coaxing them with concussions created for the confined conscious minds,
Blind believers churn into levers
trauma-heavy turning deceiver into leaders.
Refusing realisation,
That stoic stillness , is still stillness,
A stagnant state mistaken for strength.
by half-heard hymns of “you can achieve your dreams,”
as if destiny dialed their number
and didn’t hang up.
As if gratitude created from grit can gratify
The grief they carry.
After all that,
Your anchor still echoes of aching anthems associated with lullabies.
And still, beneath the desert dusk,
your shadow shivers
a lone silhouette pleading with the wind
for a softness the world
was never taught to give.