blue – Carie Juettner

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”

Politics aside

Happy National Poetry Month! Today I’d like to share a little haiku I wrote that was first published in The Texas Observer in 2015. Naomi Shihab Nye, who chose the poem for publication, said about my work: “I love Carie Juettner’s understated twist of observational loveliness in this tiny poem. When people in other states ask, asContinue reading “Politics aside”