This is Just to Say

I have eaten 

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which 

you were probably 

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold.

-William Carlos Williams

Another great poem from Caroline Kennedy's collection of poetry for children.  I enjoy poems whose titles actually start the poem.  Instead of the titling the poem using the first line, the title actually functions as the first line of the poem.  I don't care as much when I am just reading a poem, but it makes a big difference when you are reading it out loud.