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corner view :: inspiration

April is National Poetry Month, so I'm sharing one of my most loved poems for today's Corner View. Hopefully it will give you some inspiration to spread the love for poetry on Poem in Your Pocket Day later this month (April 24)...or leave a poem taped to your icebox, too.


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


PS. I grew up calling the refrigerator an "icebox." Did you?
PPS. Williams also penned this little gem of a poem.

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corner view :: leaves

Autumnal Splendor in Northern Italy :: Changing Leaves

To Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,

   And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

      To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

   With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

      For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

To hear the entire three verses of this John Keats poem, visit the Poetry Foundation website.

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