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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Voice


As gay men, I think it is that "voice" that told us one day, "You are gay!"  Though we may not have believed the voice at first, we have come to know that it speaks the truth. Remembers "just listen to the voice that speaks inside."

Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein was born on September 25, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois and began writing and drawing at a young age. He became a cartoonist, playwright, poet, performer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated songwriter.

 Silverstein is best known as the author of iconic books of prose and poetry for young readers. His works include such modern classics as Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back (1963), The Giving Tree (1964), A Giraffe and a Half (1964), The Missing Piece (1976), and The Missing Piece Meets the Big O (1981). His immensely popular poetry collections are Where the Sidewalk Ends, a 1974 Michigan Young Readers Award winner; A Light in the Attic, recipient of the School Library Journal Best Books Award in 1982; Falling Up (1996); and Don't Bump the Glump! And Other Fantasies, which was originally published in 1963 and reissued in 2008. Runny Babbit, a posthumous poetry collection of spoonerisms, was conceived and completed before his death.

 Silverstein's books, which he also illustrated, are characterized by a deft mixing of the sly and the serious, the macabre, and the just plain silly. His unique imagination and bold brand of humor is beloved by countless adults and children throughout the world. He died in May 1999.
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3 comments:

  1. xMarch 12, 2013 at 11:43 AM

    “There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.” Thomas Merton. I love this quote becasue it speaks to that inner voice and propels us to act and renew.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 12, 2013 at 6:03 PM

    As much as I read as a youth, I don't recall any Shel Silverstein in my lists. I think I've missed out on something!

    Peace <3
    Jay

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  3. Soul YaoiMarch 20, 2013 at 1:50 PM

    Cool poem.

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