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What are the meaning of these poems?
<b>Some guy on a message board posted these, and to tell you the truth, we don't have the brain to figure them out (ecept for two which are not here). It's for his school project, one of the is not finnished, so i wouldn't blam you for saying you don't know or just a guess.
Thanks.</b>
Longmobile
it's the world's longest car i swear
it reaches from beale street to washington square
and once you get in it
to go where youre going
you simply get out cause youre already there.
Superstitous
if u r superstitoous youll never step on cracks
when you see a ladder you will never walk beaneath it
and if u spill some salt youll throw some cross your back
and carry round a rabbits foot.... etc (too long of a poem)
HW machine
The homewrok machine o the hw maching
most perfect contraption that's ever been seen
just put in your hw then drop a dime
snap on a switch and in 10 seconds time
your hw comes out quick and clean as can be
here it is nine plus four and the answer is three
three
oh me
i guess it's not perfect
as i thougth it would be.
(takes a deep breathe)
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Er.....you don't mean he wrote these as a project, do you? Because that would be plagarism...
Al lof those poems belong to Shel Silverstein (and his publisher, probably...). He's a wonderful poet, though his poems are meant to be funny, and not deep. They're merely fun thoughts of his thrown together, and some aren't supposed to make sense! :)
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Look at the illustrations...
Um, also, appreciate the irony of your posting "homework machine"
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If I'm not mistaken, these are poems by Shel Silverstein. (He wrote The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and lots of other books.)
Do you mean that you literally can't figure out what the poems are about, or that you're having a hard time figuring out any "deeper" meaning? Because, basically, they're meant to be funny/silly. The first one is making fun of those really, really long stretch cars -- the author is imagining a car that's so immense that it's actually longer than the distance you need to travel. The third one is about someone who invents a machine to do his homework, but it doesn't work as well as he'd hoped. So they don't hold up to any kind of deep analysis, I think -- they should be enjoyed for the fun of the rhymes and the rhythm, and for their slightly nonsensical, off-center perspective.
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