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.
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Your friend in poetry, Susan
FEATURED POEM
The sky connects us, the mountains they
veil,
that which fills my heart, and my tongue seldom
reveals;
but nature is an ally, in all its forms, as it
produces-
the bird-chirrups, the summer-bees spell my heart’s
music.
So, lass! listen keen, midst their buzz, betwixt their
flaps,
or even in the trembling leaves, passing breeze you can
grasp-
in what two birds, they converse, sitting on a bright
perch
you will find there, the words for my hearty
touch.
So, lass! close thine eyes, and come closer, they will
whisper,
for the tongue of nature is, than a man’s, much
crisper;
so, the subject that fills my heart, and my tongue seldom
reveals
is contained in this sky, in these mountain-slopes that
veil.