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
Before I let the words flow
There's a ritual I follow or maybe I don't
I open up a book for the thoughts I am incapable of
And I wonder if I am too selflish a rat
eating and teething everything my new born teeth could find
My hands too tiny, I might learn to carry the wonders I am not
If I learn to balance them on swords I will be strained a king
A kingdom built in vain
Oh my, they lived in isolation though
Enough and immaculate poets
They have mastered the new tricks when I don't even know the old
I am but a flower reflecting on the blackish damned dungeons
Of hell, such a sorrow
There's a cry in the faraway halls but no,
No my spirit is not lost
I won't shine I could not yet sailing through the motionless ocean
tints of gold
I am not enough and yet I write
But maybe I don't
Maybe, maybe they are just whispers of what I hold
~Sarah
As to why I write poetry when I am not enough