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
I was waiting for you
in the dark,
hoping for that
presence of your light.
To feel your warmth
and those dazzling eyes:
to look in its depth
depth of beauty that—
sparkled my heart
and pumped its glow
into my veins.
BUT;
you never came
as I stood there
drenched in rain,
which turned into a graffiti
I didn't know.
"Lover left Loner"
was what it called
and I still wander
round the graffiti
but this time not
in an earthly body
as it's already 101 years
when I started being called,
"A Scary Ghost" with
an untold story
lost long ago;
crippled in the hands of death
waiting for you,
waiting for YOU!