My favorite coffee shop closed this weekend. Staycation was special, not just because it was walking distance from my house, or because they served delicious, creative lattes crafted from homemade syrups, or even because of the cozy atmosphere inside and the hammocks and picnic tables beneath the big burr oak out back. Staycation was specialContinue reading “Eulogy for a Coffee Shop”
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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”
Carie Juettner 