This is just to say : poems of apology and forgiveness
Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., ©2007.
Physical Description
47 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back. In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes, Mrs. Merz"s class writes of crushes, overbearing parents, loving and losing pets, and more. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are forgiven; some are not. In each pair of poems a relationship, a connection, is revealed.
Contents
- Apologies: This Is Just to Say
- Lucky Nose
- I Got Carried Away
- Dodge Ball Crazy
- Fashion Sense
- Brownies--oops!
- Black Spot
- Balance
- Sparkling Deer
- Not Really
- To Manga, My Hamster
- It Was Quiet
- Secret Message
- Spelling Bomb
- A Waste of Heart
- What Was I Thinking?
- Next Time
- How Slow-Hand Lizard Died
- Responses: Dear Thomas
- To the Girl Who Rubs My Nose
- Dodge Ball Kings
- Haiku for Carmen
- Desk Mess--oops!
- Roses are Red
- I'm Telling You Now
- For Little Ruth
- What Girls Want
- Sorry Back, from the Hamster
- Losing Einstein
- Little Brother
- Some Reasons Why
- Dark-Haired Girl
- River of Forgiveness
- My Poem
- Ode to Slow-Hand.