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
As she waited by the shore
With an expression long lost forelone
Biting cold wind went down her nerves
Still she waited on the verge
The waves came n forth
Touched her feet and there she saw—
Under the moonlight there he was
In the loneliness she smelt the scent
Which belonged only to her
With a blink their eyes met
And soon their shadows got tangled
Tears sparkled and kisses exchanged
He handed her a pearl of hope
A hug so warm and she fainted
She asked the nurse,"Where he is? "
"Passed away in an accident a day before"
Chill went down her spine
As she remembered yesterday's night
Her gaze went on a piece of stone
Inclosed in her shaking fist
A pearl of hope was there beheld
In that loneliness she smelt a scent
Which belonged only to her
As she flung the abortion pills
Back into the dustbin
It was then, when the BABY kicked!