Challenge: Is this poetry? Has it any depth?

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 Carlo Williams).

The challenge is this: Is this poetry? And what can be comented on in terms of it literary merit or, indeed, content?

Bob:

Whoops, 'probabaly' has been corrected!

Some love this 'poem' for its 'simplistic beauty'.

Surely, Bob, this is poetry and not just a statement. It has depth. Doesn't it make us think of why the writer had to leave - what seems like a note - in the first place to explain their actions in doing something so trivial as eating plums? And notice that the plums have been eaten at night by someone leaving early - which begs the questions: why did they leave early? What is the state of the relationship between writer and recipient to have to leave a note? Is it an affair? And why goad the recipient by saying 'they were delicious, so sweet and so cold?' Is the relationship destructive?

Already I'm looking beyond the text for meaning, and given that it's in stanzas - then I'm convinced I'm looking at poetry - and good quality poetry at that!

This 'poem' is uinique, I feel.

that poem kind of sux. who wants to read about plums in a fridge?

ya i read the poem and didn't think of any of the things that Mel thought of. to me it didn't have much meaning when i thought of it. all it made me think of was about forgiveness. but different people will find different things this poem may not mean much to me now but someday it might.

~Jacklyn