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POEMS
Today's blog prompt from Shimelle is: Have you ever been inspired by the words of a poem? Share the poem with your blog readers and tell them how you came to value its words.

If you'd asked me years ago, I'd have said Nothing Gold Can Stay or later, I would have said, Stop all the Clocks or i carry you in my heart or One Art. But the first poem that jumped to my mind was:

This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
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 love this poem. I love every bit of it. I can't even explain why. Maybe cause it's so ordinary. Cause it's so relateable. So daily life. I am not sure but it makes me happy each and every time.

July 10, 2008 | random thoughts | share[]
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