Poem by a Six-year-old....profound!

This is a poem written by a First Grader...... it does not seem complicated at first glance but there is a surprising depth in the simple words used. A literature and poetry writing professor said "It captured the truth about personal space. The misspellings make it more primal and deliberate. At the end there's an epiphany about dancing and what that means....and it has so much spark and orignality...any time you put a word on the page, you are making a choice"...and it is clear that, for this six-year-old, it was the right ones. 

We did the soft wind.

We danst slowly. We swrld

Aroned. We danst soft.

We lisin to the mozik.

We danst to the mozik.

We made personal space.

A poem for National Poetry Month by a New York City first grader. Photo: Jason Gardner.