Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999)
Better known as Shel Silverstein, was an American poet, singer-songwriter
musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books
He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books.
Translated into 20 languages, his books have sold over 20 million copies
Excerpt from Wikipedia
I don't recall when I started reading him (such is my head)
but I know that as soon as I "discovered" him, I was hooked
He is my biggest influence and I truly wish I had gotten the chance to meet him
I do now through his work
This is my tribute to him:
World Without Shel
a triolet
World without Shel?
A place I don't want to be in
Just another empty shell
World without Shel?
It would be this poet's hell
Like the seasons without Spring
World without Shel?
A place I don't want to be in
(c) 4/28/11
Shel Silverstein
He made children laugh
with a GIRAFFE AND A HALF
and the world became ecstatic
with A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Off his hat, from pure habit
he pulled a RUNNY BABBIT
wowed the world with his pen
past WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
If today alive were he
I'd befriend him on FB
and if heaven allowed poets to tweet
I'd follow Shel in a heart beat
(c) 4/26/11
Does NOT want rhyme
Shel Silverstein is turning in his grave
Rhyme is something the nation no longer craves
Editors all over are turning up their noses
Violets are blue, RED (from rage) are roses
Rhyme with a punchline, it gets you in the door
Read it at open mics, you'll have them on the floor
Whimsical, witty, lighthearted, funny and clever
Give up on who I am? Not here, not now, not ever!
(c) 11/12/10
Ode to Shel Silverstein
my first monotetra ever
A little bit of self-esteem
is what I need to reign supreme
live out my dream, be just like him:
Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein!
He wrote about a GIVING TREE
I want to be as good as he
Although I think I'll never be...
It's fine with me; it's fine with me
Of all his fans, I'm number one
He wrote the silliest poems, BAR NONE
although his time on earth is done...
His work lives on, his work lives on!
(c) 8/12/10
SHEL SILVERSTEIN'S WORK
BOOKS:
1955 - Take Ten
1956 - Grab Your Socks
1960 - Now Here's My Plan: A book of futilities
1961 - Uncle Shelby's ABZ
1963 - Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back
1963 - Playboy's Teevie Jeebies
1964 - Uncle Shelby's Zoo: Don't Bump the Glump! And other fantasies
1964 - A Giraffe and a half
1964 - The Giving Tree
1964 - Who wants a cheap rhinoceros?
1965 - MORE Playboy's Teevie Jeebies: Do-It-Yourself Dialogues for the late late show
1974 - Where the Sidewalk Ends
1976 - The Missing Piece
1979 - Different Dances
1981 - A light in the Attic
1996 - Falling Up
1998 - Draw a Skinny Elephant
2005 - Runny Babbit
2007 - Playboy's Silverstein Around the World
(info taken from A BOY NAMED SHEL by Lisa Rogak
which includes a listing of all of Shel's albums, movie scores, screenplays and plays)
SHEL'S WEBSITE:
Shel Silverstein.com
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Last updated: 7/3/11
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