My favorite piece of writing is the poem Picture Puzzle Piece By: Shel Silverstein. I first read it when my fouth grade teacher Ms. Boyle handed me book, Where the Sidewalk Ends By: Shel Silverstein. It had a collection of his poems but the one that stood out the most and had me think about it was the poem Picture Puzzle Piece. It really made my imagination go wild. How such a small piece of wet cardboard could be sooo many things. Since then I have always been thankful of how lucky i am to have such a imagination, but now that I'm getting older the imagination is not as strong as it use to be but every time i read this poem it makes me feel like my imagination has come back to me and that i can imagine anything i want.
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 one little bite
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy bellyOf 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
When were you really happy with your creativity?
When was your imagination at its peak? What was one of the times you used your imagination?
2 comments:
WEll, when I was little, I was really creative. I used to make up little art projects. Starting when i was 5, every thanksgiving i would take egg cartons and make them look like turkeys. Don't ask me how. But i did. And i put little candies in them. I was really cool.
I miss the days back in like 3rd grade when Erin and I used to pretend everything. We used to do James Bond moments everywhere. We used to go exploring in like Interlachen. Everything was so exciting but it was just our own imaginations.
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