It's hard to say you're sorry.

But 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, deception, overbearing parents, loving and losing pets, and dodge ball accidents. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are forgiven; some are not. But each pair of poems reveals a relationship, a connection—between sisters, brothers, father and son, teacher and students, and best friends.

So . . .  what sort of apology poem would you write? From the dust jacket