The Most Dangerous Game

Book: Falling Up

Title: Mari-Lou's Ride

Page: 39

Author: Shel Silverstein

The swing swang

The ropes snapped

The seat sailed

And she flew.

Her heart sang

Her shirt flapped

Her coat tailed

Her hair blew

The bells rang

The crowd clapped

Her mom wailed

And wept too.

Then crash-bang

Into her lap

By air mail came

Mari-Lou.

Book: Whisper and Shout

Title: Louder than a clap of thunder!

Page: 38

Author: Jack Prelutsky

Louder than a clap of thunder,

Louder than an eagle screams,

Louder than a dragon blunders,

Or a dozen football teams,

Louder than a knight in armor

Jumping from a ten-foot wall.

Louder than an earthquake rumbles,

Louder than a tidal wave,

Louder than an ogre grumbles,

As he stumble through his cave,

Louder than stampeding cattle,

Louder than a canon roars,

Louder than a giants' rattle,

That's how loud my father SNORES!

Book: Whisper and Shout

Title: Shiloh

Page: 12

Author: Herman Melville

Skimming lightly, wheeling still,

The swallows fly low

Over the field in clouded days,

The forest-field of Shiloh

Over the field where April rain

Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain

Through the pause of night

That followed