10. APOLOGY POEM

WRITE YOUR OWN APOLOGY POEM (YOU MIGHT WANT TO KEEP IT IN CASE YOU EVER NEED TO USE IT!!! )

Apology Poetry
By Brenda B. Covert

1 How can I apologize? Let me count the ways.

1. I'm sorry.
2. I apologize.
3. I was wrong.
4. Please forgive me.

2 Another way to say I'm sorry is to write a poem about it. That's what William Carlos Williams did. He was a poet during the early and mid-1900's. His poem called "This Is Just to Say" sounds as if it might have been a note, from a man to his wife, stuck on a refrigerator door.

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

3 A poem is an apology poem if it follows these three rules:

1. The writer confesses what he or she did.
2. The writer offers an apology.
3. The writer explains why it happened.