Shel Silverstein

I recently fell in love with Shel Silverstein's work. Shel is an American children’s writer. His poetry is what took me by surprise. In almost all his work he tries to put forth an "alternative view". His famous poems including Danny O'Dare, Its dark inside here, rain, young boy and the old man, are just to name a few examples where this "alternative" perspective gets a sizable amount of attention. He voices his opinions as to how thankless can the thanksgiving dinner be, and how blue and dark the turkey feels on the happy Christmas table. What struk me most was the fact that he writes these for little children. Yet adults too can learn a thing or two by reading Silverstine's poems.

Point of View by Shel Silverstein
“Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless
Christmas dinner’s dark and blue
When you stop and try to see it
From the turkey’s point of view.
Sunday dinner isn’t sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.
Oh how I once loved tuna salad
Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
Til I stopped and looked at dinner
From the dinner’s point of view”