This Is Just to Say
 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 

The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

From The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 2: 1939 – 1962 (New Directions, 1991)