In Honor of National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month (!) and I am going to try to post one poem each day in honor of it. That way I can share more of my favorites with you, and it will spur me to discover poetry as yet untasted. Maybe I will even share one of my own. :)

Here is today's offering:

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