Tomorrow is Poetry Day!

yayyy! Who doesn't love poetry?

When told that we had to bring in a favorite poem, I immediately thought of either "Sick" by Shel Silverstein or "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. Throughout grade school I was never really exposed to any poets, so my favorite poem is fairly juvenile. But, I am a kid a heart so I suppose it's only fitting.

Sick by Shel Silverstein

'I cannot go to school today'
Said little Peggy Ann McKay
'I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more - that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut - my eyes are blue-
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke-
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrench, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-oh-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is-what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is...Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!'


I love this poem because it reminds me of dreading school when I was younger, and rejoicing when it was the weekend :)