The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

- William Carlos Williams

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, Selected Poems (1212 - 1962)

on Poetry

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower, by William Carlos Williams


(Thanks to Barbara Boudon for this one)