Poetry

Awhile ago, Auntie Laura got this book for Owen, Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein, and he is just now starting to get into it.  Presently, his favorite poem in the book is called "Dirty Feet."

We had a dirty-foot contest

In the middle of Mudpuddle Street,

And all the unwashed dirty-foot kids

Came with their filthy feet.

There was Shoeless Billy and Toe-Jam Tillie

And the boy who walked through mustard.

There was oozy-Toes Trish, who loved to squish

Her toes in lemon custard.

Through muck and mud, through slush and crud,

They came from coast to coast,

And we scraped the dirt off everyone’s feet

To see whose weighed the most.

And Toe-Jam Tillie’s weighed thirteen pounds

But the winner was Sloppy-Sole Saul,

Cause when they scraped all his foot dirt away,

There were no feet at all.

It made me smile one night to look over and see the book on my nightstand.  Shel Silverstein's poems were some of my favorites when I was younger, and I hope Owen will share that same love for those silly, wacky poems.