What's your favorite Shel Silverstein poem?

[luv]

Everyone here has had to have read Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree? A Light In The Attic? Where The Sidewalk Ends?

It's so hard to choose a favorite.

[luv]

My Rules

If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew.
And you must sew my holey socks,
And soothe my troubled mind,
And develop the knack for scratching my back,
And keep my shoes spotlessly shined.
And while I rest you must rake up the leaves,
And when it is hailing and snowing
You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk,
And--hey--where are you going?

[luv]

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,

Listen to the DON’TS

Listen to the SHOULDN’TS

The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS

Listen to the NEVER HAVES

Then listen close to me—

Anything can happen, child,

ANYTHING can be.

[Cephalic Trauma]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

This thread.... amongst all the "ALEX SMITH ERMMAHGERD!!!", this thread.

[luv]

Originally Posted by Cephalic Trauma

HAHAHAHAHAHA

This thread.... amongst all the "ALEX SMITH ERMMAHGERD!!!", this thread.

I thought the last poem was kind of inspiring.

[tooge]

I used to get a tear in my eye reading The Giving Tree to the kids when they were little. Great story. Oh, and Shel Silverstein wouldn't have made this trade.

[Dave Lane]

Sarah Cynthia Stout

[Mrs. Loopner]

Ations
If we meet and I say, 'Hi,'
That's a salutation.
If you ask me how I feel,
That's a consideration.
If we stop and talk a while,
That's a conversation.
If we understand each other,
That's a communication.
If we argue, scream and fight,
That's an altercation.
If later we apoligize,
That's reconciliation.
If we help each other home,
That's a cooperation.
And all these actions added up
Make Civilization.
(And if I say this is a wonderful poem,
Is that exaggeration?)

[SCTrojan]

Originally Posted by luv

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,

Listen to the DON’TS

Listen to the SHOULDN’TS

The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS

Listen to the NEVER HAVES

Then listen close to me—

Anything can happen, child,

ANYTHING can be.

Absolute favorite of mine

[RJ]

Sylvia Cynthia Stout was hilarious to me as a kid. Probably because I hated taking the garbage out.

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by luv

Everyone here has had to have read Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree? A Light In The Attic? Where The Sidewalk Ends?

It's so hard to choose a favorite.

you know damn neart all this board is guys, and pretty sure most are straight
if you can't write it on the bathroom stall, we have not read it

[Mrs. Loopner]

Originally Posted by Psyko Tek

you know damn neart all this board is guys, and pretty sure most are straight
if you can't write it on the bathroom stall, we have not read it

Ohh, so you mean something more like this:

Don't Give A Dose To The One You Love Most

Don’t give a dose to the one you love most.
Give her some marmalade...give her some toast.
You can give her the willies or give her the blues.
But the dose that you give her will get back to youse.

I once had a lady as sweet as a song.
She was my darlin’, and she was my dear.
But she had a dose, and she passed it along.
Now she’s gone, but the dose is still there.

So, don’t give a dose to the one you love most.
Give her some marmalade...give her some toast.
You can give her a partiridge up in a pear tree,
But the dose that you give her might get back to me.

So if you’ve got an itchin’...if you’ve got a drip,
Don’t sit there wishin’ for it to go ’way.
If there’s a thing on the tip of your thing or your lip,
Run down to the clinic today, and say...

'I won’t give a dose to the one I love most.
I’ll give her some marmalade...give her some toast.'
Give her the willies or give her the blues,
But the dose that you give her will get back to you.
Shel Silverstein

[Fishpicker]

A boy named Sue