Short Silverstein Poems

S-ee 
H-ow 
E-arly 
L-ight 

S-hines 
I-n 
L-ovely 
V-iew 
E-ndorsing 
R-adiant 
S-un 
T-o 
E-rase 
I-solated 
N-ighttime 

Topic: Poet (Shel Silverstein) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Shel Silverstein has penned gold, dear friends,
The Missing Piece, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends...
Still, I was surprised to find that he wrote, too
Johnny Cash’s hit, “A Boy Named Sue.”...

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S-cribe
H-as
E-mployed
L-iterary

S-ublimity
I-f
L-ine
V-erily
E-xpresses
R-ighteous
S-weetness
T-o
E-njoy
I-ndividual
N-ame

Topic: Birthday of poet Shel Silverstein (September 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Just recently I was remembering lessons i learned as a child from
Poems by Shell Silverstein 

Just recently my mother yelled at me for following example from
Poems by Shell Silverstien

Maybe next time she'll think before asking me to do the dishes...

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After "Where The Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein 

There is a place where the sidewalk ends,
but I've not found it again; a place
where real life falls away at last
and magical things await their friend,
the one lost in childhood's grownup waste ~
the castle, the princess, kingdoms vast,
the knight, and the nightingale to send
its song to the midnight moon, then lace
from morning mist erase so sun may cast
its warmth upon the day....

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My MP3 player; My notebook,
My headphones; My pen,
The music; The script,
The bass; The ink flow,
Bullet for my Valentine; Robert Frost.

My CD player; My piece of paper,
My stereo; My pencil,
The sound; The wording,
The rewind; The eraser,
Avenged Sevenfold; Shel Silverstein.

Windows Media Player; Microsoft Word Document,
My speakers; My keyboard
The volume; The font,
The play button; The print button,
Nirvana; William Shakespeare
Two of my greatest loves...

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