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
Is it about finding your tribe or is it about mixing with tribe?
The question is impatiently waiting to be answered
Why am I not able to blend in even after constant efforts?
Is there something wrong with the way I am?
Maybe I subconsciously distance myself from others
Making it impossible for them to like me
Deep down, I desperately want them to know
I am not the terrible person they think I am
Apologies and clarifications are weighing me down
Cruel judgements is not something I can deal with anymore
Desperately hoping for a break from all of it
How long will I have to wait for a companion
To share all my unsaid feelings and thoughts
Shall I embark in a journey of discovery?
Through it all, I may find someone I have been looking for
Maybe there will never be that person to breath life into me
Shall I make the best of what I have?
Start to open up with those that have insulted me
Hoping they will one day treat me right
Questions are plenty but the answers are still nowhere to be found
Tired of waiting for my questions to be answered, a miracle to take place
Nothing but a complete waste of time and my life
I should go on a journey, to see what the future holds for me
Happy if it works out and even if it doesn't
I would never let sadness consume me anymore
I will fight, fight and fight again
An answer may be around the corner
Maybe I'm just not able to see it yet