Poetry Month: Day Two (by Kate)

I chose "Picture Puzzle Piece" because it uses very clever rhyming, and it makes one lost, wet puzzle piece seem like a giant story book full of possibilities. Also, it's by Shel Silverstein who is one of my favorite poets because some poets make poems that are really serious and sad and emotional, but Shel Silverstein just makes you laugh and doesn't make you cry. He's really for kids.

Picture Puzzle Piece
One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.

-by Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic)