A Good Experience With Poetry

                If I think of good experiences with poetry I think of reading Shel Silvverstein whe I was little. We have two books with tons of poems in them, Falling Up and A Light in the Attick. When I was learning how to read I really liked reading those, becasuse the words weren’t hard and the stories were short it wasn’t like reading a book. Also they’re were a lot of made up silly words that I thought were the funniest things ever.

                I can look through those books and see the pictures and for some of them I can remember what I thought when I was young reading them. I remember “Fancy Dive” a girl does a dive off a board into a pool with no water, I thought it was soo funny. “Messy Room” is about a really messy room (obviously) and I remember everytime I would read it I would bring up how my older sisters rooms were always messy like that. But then there were poems like “Hammock” and “The Dragon of Grindly Grun” made me really sad. I was flipping through the book and I remembered looking at that picture so many times and being so sad. For some reason I’ll never forget the poem “Peckin”

Peckin’

The saddest thing I ever did see

 Was a woodpecker peckin’ at a plastic tree.

 He looks at me, and “Friend,” says he,

 “Things ain’t as sweet as they used to be.”

Why I thought this was so funny, I do not know. I just know I loved it and read it over and over, I still have it memorized after all this time. Its so simple but I thought it was hilarious for some reason!

                Writing about this just makes me want to sotp everything and read all these poems. It brings back so many memories, it gives me a little insight to what I was like and what I thought about when I was little. “Hippo’s Hope” is about a hippo trying to fly and there are three endings to it, a happy sad and “chicken”. In the sad ending the hippo breaks all his bones and drowns, and I remember being so upset reading that! I thought that the hippo was real and I didn’t believe my parents when they said that the story was just made up. It’s also really funny to me that I thought it could be true a hippo was trying to fly.