Poetry is known to soothe the soul. Caitlin wrote poetry in times of stress and confusion. Her poems are very strong and emotionally charged. Unfortunately, for us, most of her poetry ended up in the waste basket. After she poured her problems out onto paper in the form of poetry, she usually crumpled up the paper and threw the poem and the problems away. Fortunately, not all of her poetry ended this way. Presented here are several of her surviving poems.

Edgar Guest's poem, To All Parents, appears on numerous memorial web sites and expresses very well our feelings about God's relationship to Caitlin's life and death.

Caitlin's school, River Hill High School, conducts a poetry contest each spring in her memory. The entries from those contests are here for your viewing. These poems have all been written by teenagers, of whom some knew Caitlin, but many did not.