The title poem the cinder path is one of the most significant poems of the collection.
Poem empty attic.
You know the deal.
The dusty attic spider clad he through the keyhole maketh glad.
The light in those famous canvases is still here he couldn t carry it away with him though his paintings.
This is pam s first new collection of poetry since you made me late again was published in 2013.
One example is the empty dark attic set against the obsessive flashing soda sign.
You go round there thinking it s a two hour job at most and five hours later you re sat on a box in a crowded attic sifting through memory boxes old school reports birthday cards remnants of past hobbies and all sorts of knick knacks.
A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
Invitation where the sidewalk ends 2.
Homework machine a light in the attic 4.
Her favourite of all her poems a child s sleep from meeting midnight 1999 was written when ella was only 18 months old and might be a bookend to the empty nest.
Though closer still the blinds we pull to keep the shady parlour cool yet he will find a chink or two to slip his golden fingers through.
This was the old painter s studio.
Runny s heading rabits runny babbit 3.
I consider that a man s brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
The roof s steep pitch my mattress flat on the boards looking up at the high ceiling where morning diffuses downward in grains of bright dust.
Like many of my favorite william carlos williams poems.
Shel silverstein quotes are the best.
The prejudices grow there firm as weeds a.
April is poetry month and we re celebrating with some of our favorite shel silverstein poems from all your favorite shel silverstein books.
Published at the web s largest poetry site.
I had a ton of stuff in her attic that needed sorting through and either throwing away or moving to my place.
Through empty heaven without repose.
For thoughts to grow.
Mind is one s field.
Up in the attic includes hilarious poems such as the dinner party don t put my dinner on the slate geriatric juliet and more reflective poems such as down the line which pam wrote to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the end of world war one.
And in the blue and glowing days more thick than rain he showers his rays.
