Best First Person Poems

The first derriere shot,
that killed everyone’s appetite,
came from a second-rate, 
light tipping looter

A no-class hothead bum,
who had bun fiddy no-good burger 
burglar instincts

Amateur night out
introduced a new bottom bang-bang 
beatnik on the back end drum — 

A queasy gut alley cat
addicted to 
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I'M A PACIFIST AND WILL KILL THE FIRST
         PERSON WHO SAYS I'M NOT
The moon was in the center of the sky when I heard her scream
so she told me about her horrible dream
it is a venture I...

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Written In First Person
By: Tom Wright
Feb. 5, 1998

Filled with joy, you heart won't be,
until surrendering your life to me.
a gift was I to all mankind,
I healed the Leper and the Blind.

The lame I made to rise and walk,
caused even Balam's Ass to talk.
I know each...

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The air smell cloudy, 
With a hint of rain. 
Come all this way by trustin’ 
In a thin white cane. 
If a wink is as good as a nod, 
What’s a brotha ta do?
Should Jesus come again in glory, 
Wouldn’t chance to see that, too....

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First-Person Personal
By Sy Roth

Here adrift wrapped in a coat of heebeejeebies
Fearful of using the first-person personal
Masking it instead by holograms of itself,
Playful non-entities cavorting among the semi-living.

Used to squirrel the words away like nuts now dormant in a tree’s hollow
Used to look for them wherever...

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I, the holy spirit, sat on my branch to watch my seed of light
This song came from me, and I made breath for my seed to eat
I fluttered to where they now live, which is the land of the five trees



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