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
You cry, you yell, you snarl, you fidget…
You fight it with all the strength that you gather within…
You sit in dilemma, pretending to decide to not know what it is…
Whilst your mind does and so does your heart…
At one instance, You want to break the chain and stop the pain…
At another, You cling onto it knowing, its a part of you..
Weren’t you taught to love yourself with all that you got? - flaw or perfection?
You do you, they say - you don’t understand how..
Probably you do, but don’t you think that is all you have left of the world?
You’ve feared companionship and have craved it simultaneously…
Doesn’t this seem like the game of hide and seek, where you feel belonged?
You feel ‘important’, for you know they are the only ones true to you?
They pay a visit even when you least ask for it…
May be that is why you decide to let it remain, but with a condition…
You control them, and not they control You!
You control the Monster!