Poetry Experience

          Poetry is not a specific type of English that I will be studying into during my life, but the best experience I have had with poetry is definitely my discovery of Shel Silverstein. His poetry may not save people's lives or change people into the essence of creativity, but damnit his poems deserve some awards of some sort. His poetry is silly and it makes me laugh which is all I need to call it literary excellence, i mean he wrote a poem about three men adventuring in a flying shoe, and he wrote a backwards poem, thats just plain cool.
          I'm not saying i specifically found him myself, someone showed him to me, but since that fateful day when my brother handed me Where the Sidewalk Ends, by: Shel Silverstein I haven't stopped reading Shel Silverstein. His poems lent to me a humor standard that I still like to be met in a poem, story, book, or even movie and that has altogether changed me into a happier individual and i am glad for it.
          Currently poetry is not my favorite form of writing, actually I am slightly repulsed by most poetry altogether, but occasionally I can enjoy a good piece of poetry, such as Acquainted With the Night by: Robert Frost, which is my favorite poem by Robert Frost mostly because I feel sympathy for the darker side of Frost shown inside this poem but maybe that is just what he was going for. Ironically i actually wrote poetry about how much i dislike poetry for a project for school, which will probably forever be my favorite piece of poetry.