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Silverstein Poems - Poems about Silverstein

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......

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Categories: silverstein, 12th grade, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: silverstein, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: silverstein, bereavement, child, dad, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: silverstein, fun, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: silverstein, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: silverstein, poets,
Form: Tazkira
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: silverstein, word play, words,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: silverstein, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
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 ......

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Categories: silverstein, 11th grade, child, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: silverstein, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: silverstein, faith, fire, fruit, giving,
Form: Prose Poetry
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) ......

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Categories: silverstein, birthday, poets,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: silverstein, books, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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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Categories: silverstein, child abuse, feelings, pain,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Agatha Christie Taught Me To Be a Book Worm
...Behind a chair Below a desk with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama or a wet swimming suit, With my hands on my peanut butter and jelly toast, marmalade, not ch......

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Categories: silverstein, books,
Form: Free verse

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