My skin is kind of sort of brownish
Pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are grayish blueish green,
But I'm told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown,
But it's silver when it's wet.
And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet.
-Shel Silverstein
Being able to pick up a few more English classes for my minor this semester, I've rediscovered my love for poetry. Ode: Intimations of Immortality by Wordsworth has been my most recent favorite, but today my professor recited the poem above, and I was reminded of my love for Shel Silverstein, and how I can sometimes most easily relate to the simple way in which he says things. I may be a senior in college, and I should now consider Keats, Blake and Browning some of the best by piling my bookshelves high with their Romantic literature, but Where the Sidewalk Ends will forever remain one of my favorites.
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I love that poem! I've never heard it before, but it's really great.
I like Shel too. But no one beats Anne Sexton.
I love that poem! It's one of my favorites :)
Correction Mandy - no one beats ee cummings :) haha. But then Anne Sexton can be next I guess. And then Shel Silverstein.
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i never understood poetry but i always envied people that knew and could relate to it. i think it's a beautiful form of art.
shel silverstein always seems to hit the spot. and ummm girlfriend, i do believe we are FAR overdue!
loves!
shel silverstein always seems to hit the spot. and ummm girlfriend, i do believe we are FAR overdue!
loves!
DIT-TO girlfriend! i love me some shel silverstein.
i've never read that poem before but i just fell in love with it. thank you!
i love shel silverstein. my dad bought me all of his books and i was raised on them! i have a mini spaz everytime i find out someone else loves him as much as i do :)
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