1. Home »
  2. American Poets »
  3. Shel Silverstein

Come Skating

by Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein

They said come skating;
They said it's so nice.
They said come skating;
I'd done it twice.
They said come skating;
It sounded nice….
I wore roller-
They meant ice.




Quotes of the Day

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
• Galileo Galilei


Poems of the Day
  • Alan Seeger
    Kyrenaikos
    by Alan Seeger
    Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; Twine yellow roses for the drinker's crown; Let music reach and fair heads circle me,