This is Just To Say

We read William Carlos Williams's "This is just to say" - a wonderful poem that apologizes and at the same time seems to have almost no regrets. Students wrote their own anti-apology apology poems




Third Grade

Brian G.
Stealing your space people

I am sorry for
stealing the star
warship and
master obi
wan kenobe

I bet you were
going to battle
with them

I wanted to be
a clone
trooper or a
bounty hunter

Andy H.
The dead monster

I ate the
monster I found
it in the
jungle which you
had fun with.
He was your
friend. Forgive me
he was delicious
so good and so
warm.

Marissa K.
I stole you dogs?

I found a
dog that was
very cute and
I don't want
to give it
back

I did it because
I love dogs and
they are so cute

It was so cute
soft, brown and
little.

5th Grade


Martha M.

I opened the
presents under
the Christmas tree
the day before

I shouldn't have
opened them until
all of us
opened them together

I did that
because I was
curious to
open them.


Matt P.

I'm so sorry
I stole your
pop
on your washer

I shouldn't of
took your pop
because it was
Yours truly,
I took it
anyway because
It was so good.

Alex J.
Sorry

I have looked
at gifts
for Christmas

to be surprised
but I'm curious
but I want to know

I saw a nothing
only one
for my sister.