When I think about poetry in February, the images of red and pink children’s valentines from the mid-1950s spring to mind or syrupy sweet verses, so I took a different approach for this month’s Gathering of Poetry and visited Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends for Love.
Love
Ricky was “L” but he’s home with the flu,
Lizzie, our “O,” had some homework to do,
Mitchell, “E” prob’ly got lost on the way,
So I’m all of love that could make today.
And, thanks to Kat for reminding me that it is time for a third Thursday poetry post.
Bibliographic credit: Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends: the poems and drawings of Shel Silverstein. Harper & Row. © 1974.
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