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
I want to be the reason for your happiness
I want to be the reason behind your smile
Someday I want to be your life.
The moon knows what I am thinking
The stars look at me all night, winking.
I still stare at the emptiness of the ceiling,
with a head full of memories so appealing.
Someday I want to stand close by you,
holding your hands and hugging you with my nose buried in your chest.
I want to give the shoulder where you can rest,
I want to become the person whom you can trust
Perfect love is always imperfect
I want us to have fights and sleepless nights
There will be days you feel betrayed
There will be times you have to cry alone
Let new love blossom between us.
Let our fights end with innocent words
and when it happens, we finally realize
that love is not what we idealize.
It is that respect, acceptance, and trust
in which we find the just.