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 Comfort 3 years ago
Drink, sip on the liquor, Lips on its circular shape , It's when your eyes seem heavy that you speak truth, You don't like my hair, it's too long you say, My voice too soft to cheer you up,  My shape uneven so it turns you off, Not loose enoug...
Last commented on by Lila 2 years ago
this is a powerful poem. There are powerful feelings. But who is the boy. Please tell your readers
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Started by Riya Jaiswal 3 years ago
You were a liar when you held my hand and kissed it subtly. Your lips lied swallowing all the pain inside pressed behind the dry walls of your throat. You lied every night holding me in your arms, becoming something you were not at all. All y...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
Does your heart ever remind you to miss. As you kiss your other do you ponder on mother and the I your rejection.    Father  My cheeks grow tender with each tear that flows in fantasy of :   what could have been,  Should have been,  Shou...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
This is a very emotional, very intense poem and, for the most part, it works very well.  We feel your pain and ...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
  Let us part like we Pangea, with hopes life we breathe into each other dies not,  Let us kiss and say goodbye, nay let us shake hands as if business concluded,  If eyes ever meet, I hope not brow nor cheeks ever confess that love I once share...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
I can feel your emotional commitment to your poem however, it has a number of grammatical errors, making it very difficu...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
The calming sip of your love Sweet with every gulpwarming the butterflies that you allowed to bloom A cup of teaClear water transformed to this dark substance to satisfy your desiresThe stain Discoloured on my white matter A cup of teaI'd like anot...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Sincere thanks for sharing your poem with me.  It's light and lovely and moves to a gentle rhythm.  I do have a few su...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 3 years ago
MY LIFE CHANGING DECISION!   I am a human being in youth, While various decisions is laid out in sequence, To interpret in thoughts, Fighting with predicaments all along to make an ultimate decision!   I am not like Sherlock Holmes, Making ...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Thank you very much for sharing your work with me.  I very much like your theme - the uncertainty of the paths we will ...
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Started by m_uzair_ans 3 years ago
For the splendid art of versification     I have found an adoration recently     But uninitiated in it's intricacies     Is quite sadly what I happen to be       I possess no knowledge of composition    Nor do I know of devices p...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Love this!  While, as a poet and teacher of poetry, I might find places where editing would work, I'm just going to say...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
My eyes had met her before we first spoke as if destiny whispered and said "that's the apple of your eye"    The first look she gave... inimic  The first words I spoke... comedic The first hug she gave, I felt erotic or maybe emotions muddled....
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing your work with me.  There are some fine moments in your poem but, I believe you have to choose a ...
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Started by Tiny glowing star 3 years ago
The butter sun just shines, Making its way along the clouds, I want to cuddle with this day, Making my perfect path in this month, May!   The breeze is just soothing, For my astonishing date, But I don't wish for a candle light dinner, To ju...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Once again, thank you for sharing your poetry with me.  I really like your opening stanza -  I would however, consider...
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Started by Comfort 3 years ago
What is this?tis not a warrior yet my walls it's entered What thou betoken? tis omen?...nay tis new beginning?I at a state of tizzy know not what to do My kingdom rains yet the sun shines, flowers bloom yet it is not springMy armour stripped, I reach...
Last replied to by Susan Katz 3 years ago
Thou has written a very "medieval" poem with language that might be heard in a Shakespearean play.  I feel the emotiona...