Oh, the places I’ll go
by A Freeman
(Written in honor of the late great Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Illustration by Dr. Seuss
One fish. Two fish.
If I could have any wish:
I’d fly to the moon
in a pastel balloon
while dining on knish.
I’d bring Thing 1 & Thing 2,
we’d sail off in a striped canoe,
I’d tip my tall hat,
lick my fur like a cat,
paint outerspace red and blue.
If I bumped into Dr. Seuss
I’d toast to him with grape juice,
and we’d probably share green eggs and ham,
cause that’s the kind of fan I am!
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 107 years ago today. Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss.
Beautiful, young & innocent!!
Wow, refreshing, clever, wonderfully-written poem. Enjoyable read 🙂
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heehee this ones so cute 🙂 i almost read it like a nursery rhyme 😀
Ps…this weeks FWF is now inspired by this post! I’ve included a link back here for you. 🙂 Hope you will stop by Friday and post this one! Or a new one! 🙂
Omg! I loooooveeeee this!!! Excellent! The doc would be so proud!
This is great, I love it!
Good one..
This is fantastic! What am lovely homage to the Doctor!
I bet the old Dr Zuess is sitting on his green or purple cloud right now, drinking grape juice and toasting you back – what a lovely way to celebrate a much-loved author/poet who woke the poets in god-knows-how-many-minds.
Aleza,
I have nominated you for the well-deserved Versatile Blogger Award: http://tothinkornottothink.wordpress.com/awards/
debi
Hi there,
I’m passing the Versatile Blogger award to you
I am passing The Versatile Blogger Award onto you. I hope you will accept. I have enjoyed your meaningful writings.
http://bodhirose.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/the-versatile-blogger-award/
Here is something for you Aleza http://brokensparkles.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/versatile-blogger-award/
And this is my new blog … regards Blaga!
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Thanks for linking ..very enjoyable treat.
A++
🙂
Its was pure fun.Enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it Uma!
Fantastic 🙂 Nicely written!
Thank you Ewan! and thanks for the visit.
I don’t see too much of Dr. Suess on television these days. I wonder what in the world the future generation will look like without having that exposure during their formative years? I shudder, I think.
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Aw, wonderful birthday tribute!
Thank you Hannah!! 🙂
green eggs? ehhhh!!!
lovely amusing poem!
http://jessicasjapes.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/sweet-pleasure/
Thanks Jessica, glad you enjoyed!
o boy
did i need a poem
like this today
what’d make it even better
is
christopher walken
reading it
yeah
that be great
peace my sister
esteban
Esteban, I need more cowbell! Thanks for the poetic comment! 🙂
Hi there!
FYI: you are featured here today:
http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/2011/03/sunday-rally-dispatch-03062011.html
See you this p.m. for Potluck.
Great tribute to Dr. Seuss. Also- Happy birthday! I come from the Rally.
Thank you, frayedges, I will visit you soon!
Great tribute to Dr. Suess, Aleza. And Happy Birthday to you! I hope you have a beautiful day.
Thank you Cheryl, loved your interview on JP!
Oh! That Sam I am! You too? Love it, Aleza!
Thanks Paula!!
Good. With little trivial wishes, a nice poem came out. 🙂
Thank you Mihir. Thanks for visiting.
beautifully written.
loved the limerick
Fantastic write! A great tribute to the iconic Dr. Suess!
a wonderful limerick dedication to Dr. Seuss.. loved the rhyme and the fun Al..
and the ending too.. green eggs and ham? sounds yummy…! 😀
I would read Dr. Seuss on a train
I would read him in the rain
I would read him in a car
I would read him near and far
Dr. Seuss sure writes with style
And he always makes me smile!
@lolamouse Thank you for the fun poem comment! I feel the same way!!
@Leo I think it sounds pretty delicious!!
@A.B. @Rajlakshmi Thank you for the kind compliments!
Absolutely amazing!! Reads just like a Seuss. Brought me back to my childhood 🙂
Thanks Mark! That is a wonderful compliment!! Thanks for visiting!!
One Fish, Two Fish was my kids favorite.
What a nice tribute to Dr Suess.
And a toast to boot!
Thanks Debi. We used to read that to put our son to sleep when he was an infant. By page 3 he was out like a light. Doesn’t work anymore though!! 🙂
I am back here again.. Hehehhe
(In reply to your visit to Tingtasy) You do??? Wow, so we have the same numbers of cats… That’s just so cool… Oh my gosh, we have another thing in common… and yeah, I am adding your link on my blog cos, yes, we have made friends with each other and you can be sure of more visits from me now.. 🙂
One of cats actually gave a long ‘meow’ when I told him about what you wrote..
Very creative !! Nice tribute !!
Thank you JL!
I love your tribute to Dr. Seuss! I’ll bet you had fun coming up with this. I love his work too. Thanks for sharing this light-hearted poem.
Thanks Bodhirose! It was a lot of fun.
Very cute! i wrote on another blogger’s recent Seuss post that I used to read him to my daughter before she was born. 🙂
I’d turn the grape juice into wine on that balloon, but have it head for Bermuda instead of the moon, and I’d trade Thing 1 and Thing 2 in for my hubby and daughter. We NEED a vacation! 🙂
xo
Jannie, your comment just made me laugh out loud or LOL as the case may be. We need a vacation too! At this point, I will take the moon … as long as I can set up a lounge chair on the sunny side.
Happy birthday to you, and I love this too!
xoxoxoxo Sara
Thanks Sara! 🙂
Happy Birthday to you today…
hope you a lovely day with your family…
🙂
Thank you Jingle!
I love Dr Seuss and this is a fabulous tribute! Thank you.
Thank you Andy and thanks for visiting my blog!
I like this poem.
Light hearted, humorous and fun.
This was a romp of a read, Aleza. Thank you for sprinkling a bit of joy into the blogosphere!
Kim, I am glad you enjoyed it. Mmmmmm, sprinkles …..
Joyous and yeah, the use of words added a touch of playfulness; liveness in this poem…
Happy Rally and here is mine.. http://www.tingtasy.com/2011/03/collections-of-tings-poetry-tpmar101.html
love it! my wk 39 is here.. http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/regret/
Such a nice tribute to Dr. Seuss. Enjoy celebrating your birthday.
Angela, Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ode to seuss haha! nice! my wk 39 is here.. http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/regret/
happy fun poem…
loved it..
here is my link: http://mypoetrywriting.blogspot.com/2011/03/your-smile.html
a nice fun poem!
Kinesh w/mustard? This is darling. I love it. Lots of fun and I’d love to fly to the moon in a pastel balloon.
Poem on, Aleza.
Jamie, there is room in the balloon 4 you as long as you don’t mind sitting in between Thing 1 & Thing 2.
Excellent! I really like this poem. Even tweeted it…which I do rarely (:
I wonder…have you ever read The Sleep Book? It is my favorite by Seuss.
Thank you for your NotSoTame tweetage. That is so awesome! I must admit I don’t know the sleep book. Guess what I’ll be googling in about 5 minutes … 🙂
FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Awww shucks Rachel. I can see your exclamation point… 😉
A beautiful happy poem…:-)
And I thought Dr. Seuss wrote this?! Love it! 🙂
It was me! Thank you!!
this is so very cute and witty.
love the rhymes,
I love Dr. Seuss, his books entertained my family for years.
🙂
He will always hold a special place in my heart.
I spent hours just looking at The Cat in The Hat book and wishing I was there.
This is wonderful.
Thank you, Thingy. I was/am the same way.
That was tottaly wicked!
As in very cool!
🙂
Yay thanks Luna. That’s a wicked compliment!
1st off- many Happy Returns of the Day Girl..
Wishing you a beautiful day 🙂
I loved this poem.. so very playful. What a beautiful tribute.
Aleza, totally loved it.. Mind if I join you for flying off to moon!
Hugs Dear xox
Love ya Liv!