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 times have wandered off the clock,
And merged into the very air,
That table where I would sit and stare,
To will away the hours grown heavy like a rock,
Has faded into an ancient thing,
Where I once sat a churlish child,
Now here I am, a manling,
Free, unfettered but wary of the Wild;
A far cry from those Lucid Dreams,
That I would weave and prophesize,
With Hope bursting at the seams,
Of eyes unwashed, that fantasize.
I have now a solace in habit,
And no more excuses from exercise,
No more that spry, errant rabbit,
That darts away from Mother's cries;
The years have gone and so have I,
From an eager Future to Auld Lang Syne,
From pondering when, to pondering why?
Thus has changed these thoughts of mine.
And yet a niggling Hope has come,
Of having what my Father had,
A Dream I yearn to live, welcome,
A Home, A Hearth, A Love, A Lad,
To see him creeping inch by inch,
To meet his Father's proud, happy Eyes,
To see him grow up in a cinch,
To see a Man, I taught to Rise.