As a third grade teacher Shel Silverstein was my favorite poet. I usually started a new school year with this one at the entrance to my classroom.
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I couldn't tell you how many times I was beat for day dreaming, when I was really just disassociating with life because of the previous beatings...
But I remember in Carl Sagan's book "Cosmos" a fragment of the "Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot that I still remember.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
I clung to it because it means that I'll someday look back on my life and it'll make sense.
In a sense it has, but it wasn't as comforting as I had hoped.
Willow_Wisp
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Mar 13, 2021
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I LOVE the books of Shel Silverstein! Saved them all.
My favorite poem of his is "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out."
LiterateHiker
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Mar 13, 2021
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Yes he was great. I saved my books also. Did you know that he wrote the song A Boy Named Sue that Johnny Cash had a big hit with.
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