William Carlos Williams

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

I first met him when I was in year 11. I studied him a little at Uni, and now teach his poems to my students. This was the one that made me fall in love with him, and poetry really.