Michael Rosen, the author, gave the prompt for today’s 64 Million Artists’ The January Challenge. He said to write a poem about your earliest memory. I don’t think that this is my earliest, but definitely one of them. I was 3 years old when this happened.
Gran is brushing my hair,
Gently,
Gently,
Ow! A knot.
The sun is shining on us,
Hot,
Hot,
Sea breeze Hot.
Laura and I run off
To the playground
Climbing,
Climbing,
On the monkey bars.
Another girl joins us,
But she doesn’t speak our language.
That doesn’t matter.
We speak,
She speaks,
We play together.
Earlier, I saw a baboon
Sitting on a rock.
He looked sad
And wise
And I liked him
A lot.
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