Best first poems
Five best first poems if you are new to OneKidReadThis.
If you only want the strongest first doorway into the archive, begin with these poems. They show the range of the work without asking you to read everything at once.
I Am You
Imagine I was right there with you When you looked up to your bedroom ceiling And questioned everything Late at night
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I wish I could have warned you. I know it all seemed like just a game— following those older boys, up the concrete curved staircase
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The champagne ship sailed through the night returning to a home washed over by the waves of the unknown. Unprepared for the inevitable — if it wasn't that night,
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One day, when you're six years old you may watch your Dad leave, and have just the vaguest sense of where he's going. But what you won't know
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One day you'll watch From the back seat of the car Your Dad grab your Mom's hair And jerk her head so hard it snaps Back against the headrest.
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Ribbons unfurl and dance across your field of vision in the sunshine, their curls and shimmers as imaginary and concrete as a dream seen through blinks
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