Carie Juettner

Did I Miss Anything?

I wish I hadn’t been inspired to write this poem. I wish it hadn’t been relevant enough to take home first place in the Shirley Elliot Cosby Memorial Award at the Poetry Society of Texas annual banquet last year. I wish I didn’t feel the need to share it with you. I wish “back to school”Continue reading “Did I Miss Anything?”

Reading Poetry in a Thunderstorm

I wrote this poem several years ago when I was still teaching 7th grade English. I had a lot of fun finding ways to incorporate the poetic devices* I taught to my students into a description of a thunderstorm, and I was pleased when this poem finally found a home. It won first place inContinue reading “Reading Poetry in a Thunderstorm”

Blues

I took this picture of the sky this morning… … and realized it was a good day to share a poem with you. I wrote “Blues” several years ago, but it just recently found a home. The short poem won first place in the “Makes Sense to Me” prize in the Poetry Society of Texas’sContinue reading “Blues”