Free Verse · Family
Advice for the Newly Arrived
Welcome, small one. You arrive
knowing nothing of Tuesdays, taxes,
or how to spell your own name —
and yet within one hour
you taught four adults to whisper,
two to cry, and one
(your father) to dance very, very slowly.
Stay exactly this powerful.
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“Advice for the Newly Arrived” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/the-newly-arrived
Quick facts
- Poem
- Advice for the Newly Arrived
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Family, Happiness, Funny
Text, source & rights
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalAdvice for the Newly Arrived, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 527b542fe846c692…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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