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Best Geisel Poems


A Letter To Theodor Geisel - Aka Dr Seuss
Some get hooked on poetry
By reading Robert Frost
Or Dickinson or Poe
Or others whom their paths have crossed.

In college I read Coleridge,
Byron, Shelley,Whitman, Pound,
T.S. Eliot and Wordsworth,
All in Norton’s, nicely bound.

But in truth, what got me started
Was less lofty, though enticing – 
More like turning from...

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Categories: geisel, poets, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
The Return of the Lorax
*One very early Christmas morning long ago and far away, I was hard(ly) at work again. In the spirit of the season, and being a child again, I offer a poem I wrote as a tribute to Dr. Seuss:


What walks through the forest,
And shakes all...

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Categories: geisel, 6th grade, child, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things