Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk ends by Shel Silverstein

I've known this poem since I was a little kid. My parents bought me this when I was in elementary school to try to introduce me to poetry and I just drank it up. I learned to read when I was very young, in kindergarten I actually read at a third grade reading level, and so I started to read these poems. I always loved the whimsy of them. It made poetry fun. Whenever I get sick of the academic way we do poetry in school now, I go back to these poems to remember why I love it.