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
My soul yearns for you,
for your love,
for your presence.
A piece of me-
that's what you were made of.
To complete me:
fulfill me to the highest.
I wanted to be loved;
to love.
Can't you stay beside
me forever?
Sitting in silence,
gazing the stars,
under the moonlight,
just listening to
the chirping of crickets.
Taking our breath away
with our chests
falling and rising together,
while we laid on
the soft lush grass—
but you left,
at the piano
with my songs unsung
and the choir of tears.
And that was the worst
ever goodbye-
& a piece of me went.