Poetry Contest

I received an email about a week ago in my Jeffco inbox about a poetry contest that Jefferson College was having. I decided, "What the heck?" and wrote a few poems that I could enter. I haven't written much of anything in the past year, so I thought it may be a little difficult for the words to come to me. I've had so many more things to write about in the past several months but I never found an opportunity to write those feelings down. I think this contest was what I needed to force myself to write something.

A few weeks ago, Mrs. Cartee, one of the English teachers that used to be at Fox came into my Walgreens. Even though she wasn't my teacher, she was good friends with one of the best teachers in the school-- Mr. Krutzsch. He was my Language Arts III and Newspaper teacher. He really helped me with my writing. She asked if I had a blog and if I was still writing. I gave her the URL address to this site, so hopefully she has made her way over here. Now, she has some poetry to read. I feel like I've found part of myself now that I got the chance to write again.

I don't have much feedback yet because only one person has read them so far...but the poem(s) brought her to tears, so I'll take that as a good sign. Read and comment, if you like.

Thanks for reading,
Nicole