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THIS IS JUST TO SAY, CAT
I have brought home
a dog
that was in
the shelter
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while
you were probably
hoping
for sardines
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Forgive me
he was wide-eyed
so waggy
and so thin
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(c) 2011 Â April Halprin Wayland, all rights reserved
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The story behind the poem:
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Over at MsMac’s Check It Out blog, (posting poems by students all month long), Jenna, a 5th grader, has written a beautiful musical apology based on William Carlos Williams‘ famous plums poem…his poem titled This Is Just To Say, which starts, “I have eaten/the plums/that were in/ the icebox”
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(c) 2011 Â April Halprin Wayland, all rights reserved
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The story behind the poem:
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Over at MsMac’s Check It Out blog, (posting poems by students all month long), Jenna, a 5th grader, has written a beautiful musical apology based on William Carlos Williams‘ famous plums poem…his poem titled This Is Just To Say, which starts, “I have eaten/the plums/that were in/ the icebox”
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After a day chasing my tail, looking for poems in all the wrong places, Jenna’s poem inspired me to create my own THIS IS JUST TO SAY poem after Williams’.
After a day chasing my tail, looking for poems in all the wrong places, Jenna’s poem inspired me to create my own THIS IS JUST TO SAY poem after Williams’.
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What about you? Â What would your THIS IS JUST TO SAY poem say?
What about you? Â What would your THIS IS JUST TO SAY poem say?
Eli and Elsie
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