Silverstein Poems

Childhood Again

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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 thi...

White Strips

...When I drive down my road
and I look in my mirrors
they shake
interesting
my music must be too loud
so I turn it down
I can see the pebbles in the snow
kicked up by the last teenager to race d...

Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance

...Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance

Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur wannabe
(thinly veiled cover as yours truly...

My missing piece

...Oh I’m looking for my missing piece
Hi-dee ho, here I go 
It’s been two days since you left
It feels like I’ve been rolling for centuries
You’re the piece that is just right for me
Maybe you may...

Crazy Little Thing

...I have this crazy little thing I like to do,
put words together make a rhyme or two.
Dip my toes in the sands of rhyme
then make a word splash all mine.

I have this crazy little thing I like to...

Tribute To Shel Silverstein

...I learned what I needed to know about poetry from Shel Silverstein.
Poetry does not have to be high society or serious.
It can be humorous, common, funny and fun!
I love Silverstein's books and hi...

What About Wolfs

...WHAT ABOUT WOLFS

shel silverstein: a bit childish, his giving tree my kids remember, though its parts were dismembered as it gave to the bitter end of life.

ogden nash: well, he gives ...

A Whole New Word

...Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   t...

Acknowledgements

...1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 
6.    Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7.    Joh...

Emma's Wonderland

...My child has a love of poetry
It is rare, for she is only nine.
In her bare mind, words are potpourri
floating, rhyming by stanza, by line.

Holding a book ever so tightly
(it relieves the raw ...

A Poem For Poets

...Has there ever been a pen as sharp as when Whitman penned his captain dead?

Was anyone more right than when Thomas urged rage against the dying light?

Did you ever read a bigger thrill than Wad...

The Immortal

...THE IMMORTAL

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
 Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree


You will go to the land of Oblivion to remember. You will bring in the hands the...

Literary Sublimity

...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) ...

Scramble Ramble Damble Boo

...Scramble, ramble, damble, boo.
Amble, gamble, jamble, moo.
I like rhymes that are prancy and good.
The ones that remind me of my childhood.

Bibbity Bobbity Dibbity Doo.
I am in a child-like mi...

Tragic Magic

...torn middle eastern attire
an orphaned heart on fire
houses turn to rubble
gotta bomb them on them on the double
who wiped the mossad prints off nine eleven
every body knows angels cries from se...

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