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

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Started by Sarah01 3 years ago
Lately i am unable to write. Lines come to me but i can not get the poem out. I feel like any word i could write couldn't possibly measure upto my expections which isn't how i want to judge my poems at all. Poetry is in a way decorating your rawest f...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Hi Sarah, What you are experiencing is common to almost all poets, writers, play-writers - we all have those moments wh...
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Started by Riya Jaiswal 3 years ago
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
This is a very "tasty" poem!  Some very fine images and some "delicious" ones too.  There are some truly lovely images...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
My heart stretched out on the wings of a phoenix, I live so I can die, so I can live again, so my flames can be warmth to new skin that I shall wear, My smile is but a trumpet blown till my lungs surrender to the lack of oxygen, The end is nigh, t...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Hi Comfort, I got your email with your poem, but cannot respond as you did not put in your email address.  If you resen...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
… and so, they asked. And like a flower blooming, I opened and showed them my truth, I became a glass house, parts of me hanged, windows shattered with stains of blood, a warning, not to seek to see yourself in the reflection of I, for I am shatt...
Last commented on by Comfort 3 years ago
@Susan, thank you for your help. the first 3 lines that have quotation marks are meant to be words that came directly f...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
Flag raised, white. I surrender. Onto you, my walls shall bow, My bridges shall no longer arch, My guards will hold no arms, nay, I will not have guards,                                         I surrender....
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
I would only make one suggestion.  Your last line might be more powerful, and poetic, if it were to read - "The key to ...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 3 years ago
I am here, Looking at the dandelions, Pollens waltz in air, Bright and beautiful, Taking off in a flight! Slow yet elegant, One after another, Taking off to fly away, To distant land, facing exquisite emotions! A slow journey, Makes them fa...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Good Sunday morning, Swetha,  Your poem has so many fine moments but, I think you could bring it to an even more meanin...
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Started by Sarah01 3 years ago
These are the vows I took in silence To love you the way you came to me Rebirthed, the softest ray of sunshine And presently unwavering   These are the songs i sung At the sight of Twilight- The stars unthanked for but twinkling Days shifte...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Thank you so much for sharing your poem with me.  There are some really fine moments and some lovely lines.  Two thing...
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Started by Dreamer 3 years ago
Cold were the nights as they crept out of the cemeteries in broken words, in shattered promises, in soulless echoes. With rings with no fingers, voices without throats, footsteps with no feet, they arose in unison. Black capes, red eyes, for the ...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Thank you so much, Dreamer, for sending me your poem "The Silent Night."  It is certainly dark and very dramatic and yo...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
I stray from falling in love,   For I know I have no wings nor you to keep us in the high of love, Nor plane with metal to hold, us, when hearts we break and words they told... "you're not the one", ache,   I stray from falling in love because...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
"...intertwine with you like vines..." is lovely both in the image and the rhyme.  Remembering "less is more" I might l...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
Conversation shifted, lifted emotions, lust exquisitely sways in the atmosphere,    The question of your first time bounces from lip to lip,  "Your turn"   My lips quiver,  I'd loved him,  he was my hero when men seemed like demons,  b...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Thank you so very much for sharing this incredibly powerful poem.  You tell a story that is both poignant and powerful,...