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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.
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Your friend in poetry, Susan
FEATURED POEM
The Sea of my one night:
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The sea was calm and blue like a woman's heart
Her shore a bikini-clad woman waiting for sunset
Cat eyed girl looking for me looking with a fixed gaze
The rocks could hear some murmurs in the background
The smell of dried fish wafted through the evening - the seabirds cried again with thirst
I slept for a long time in the dark and never saw her again
Maybe she's my feelings stuck in the rocks
I had always loved the rocks
Like the blue of the sea, all rocks are re-enactment of women's hearts
| again wandered about in an evening dream
She didnot come back even at night
I will be reborn for her yet again
Is it me or is it the thirst of those birds' cries?
I was not in the heaps of self-painted pictures
Can you see her cat- eyed portrait amid the rocks?
Is there somebody to whisper behind my silhouette in the evenings?