MATTIE STEPHANEK SEVEN YEAR OLD DISABLED POET
THE BEAUTY OF BEING
A POET ANY DISABLED
SEVEN CAN REACH MANY
READERS BEING A POET
ISN'T TAUGHT IN A UNIVERSITY
IT COMES FROM THE SOUL
THE HEART AND SOUL OF
THE SMALLEST HUMAN
BEINGS TODAY AND EVERYDAY
I'M INSPRIED BY LITTLE
MATTIE STEPANEK SEVEN
YEAR OLD DISABLED POET
WHAT WONDERFUL WORLD
MATTIE DIED AT AGE 13 HE
WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS
OF POETRY THE TRUE
DEFINITION OF BRING
A POET ISN'T TAUGHT IT
COMES FROM THE SOUL
ANY SEVEN YEAR COULD
WRITE BEAUTIFUL POETRY
SO MANY DISABLED PERSONS
FEEL.LIMITED WITH WHAT
SOCIETY SAYS THEY CANNOT
NOT ACHIEVE I WRITE EVERY
SINGLE DAY A POEM A VERSE
REST IN PARIDISE MATTIE
EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING
TO SAY DOESN'T LIMITATIONS
BELIEVE AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE
DURING SLAVERY AFRICAN
AMERICANS WERE TORTURED
FOR READING AN YET THEY
BECAME BRILLANT MINDS
IT US VERY IMPORTANT TO
ENCOURAGE YOUNG POETS
TO WRITE I WROTE MORE
POETRY WHILE BLEEDING
BRAIN INJURED MOST POETS
BECOME FAMOUS AFTER DEATH
AFTER MENTAL BREAK DOWNS
DEPRESSION MENTAL ILLNESS
IS THE PERFECT TOOL FOR
JOURNALING CREATING
POETRY AND SONG TOTALLY
ABSENT FROM ANY COLLEGE
CLASSES POETRY IS FROM
THE SOUL NOT TAUGHT
OR LEARNED GOD BLESS YOUNG
MATTIE STEPANEK FOR TEACHING
SO MANY SCHOLARS HOW
TO BE A POET YOU JUST WRITE
MY POETRY IS USUALLY ABOUT
MENTAL ILLNESS PANIC ATTACKS
DEPRESSION PTSD TRAUMATIC
BRAIN INJURY DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE KEEPING MY MIND
WRITING HELPS ME COPE WITH
MY PAIN AND SUFFERING
I WRITE OF LOVE WEARING
WIRES PREGNANT THINGS
FAMILIAR TO MY HEALING
I WAS BASICALLY IN SHOCK
TO KNOW A COLLEGE STUDENT
WAS TRYING TO EXTORT MY
MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL
SEATED WITH AN ARSON
MURDERER OBSESSED
WITH MY DEATH MY BEING
AN FBI INFORMANT I WROTE
VERY AFFECTIONATE POEMS
BEING A MILITARY WIFE TOURING
GERMANY MY GRANDFATHER
SERVING IN ROME PROTECTING
THE ARCH BISHOPS AND PRIEST
I ALSO WROTE ABOUT WEARING
WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FEDERAL
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS LANGLEY
THE BUREAU I AM NOT A SCHOLAR
JUST AN FBI INFORMANT A
MOTHER A GRAND MOTHER
A GREAT GRANDMOTHER WHO
SUFFERED SEVERE MENTAL
ILLNESS AND KEPT A JOURNAL
INITIALLY MY POETRY WAS
NOTHING MORE THAN A MENTAL
HEALTH JOURNAL IT HELPED ME COPE
WITH MENTAL ILLNESS I WAS TAUNTED
HUMILIATED CALLED A RETARD
I DIDN'T CARE MY 8 CHILDREN WERE
MY CRITICS THEIR TEACHERS
LOVED MY POEMS I ALLOWED
THEM TO READ A FEW FOR CLASS
PROJECTS THAT WAS IT MY SONS
TEACHER ENCOURAGED ME TO
ENTER MY POEM IN THE
MONTEL WILLIAMS POETRY
CONTEST 1999 AFTER MY
NERVOUS BREAK DOWN AT WORK
ON MACDILL AIRFORCE BASE
I ENTERED IT BEGAN A FEW
YEARS LATER GARGANO BEGAN
STALKING ME SENDING ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS JAMAICAN TALIBAN
FEMALES TO BREAK INTO MY HOME
SHOOTING IN MY HOME FINALLY
ARRIVING WITH A GUNMAN FEARING
MY SAFETY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
CHARLIE CRIST SAVED MY LIFE
GARGANO THEN IGNITED A CAR
BOMB IN MY FACE RESULTING IN
SEVERE INJURIES BUT GOD IS SO
GOOD I CONTINUED WRITING
BROKEN GRAMMER OFF WORDS
MISSPELLED I REMAINED INSPIRED
BY MATTIE THE SEVEN YEAR OLD
WHO SAID ANYONE COULD BE
A POET EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING
TO SAY SO I WROTE ABOUT GROWING
UP IN CHICAGO BEING BORN AT
HOME DURING A CIVIL RIGHTS RIOT
I WROTE OF GROWING UP ON MAXWELL
STREET JEW TOWN CHICAGO HOME
OF THE BLUES SWEET HOME CHICAGO
HOWEVER I WAS ASHAMED BECAUSE
PARTIAL BLINDNESS FROM A CRUSHED
EYE SOCKET I COULDN'T EVEN EDIT
THEN I JUST WROTE LIKE A CRAZY
PERSON TYPING WITH ONE FINGER
BECAUSE MY HAND WAS CRUSHED
IN THE CAR CRASH DETERMINED YES
IT JUST FELT GOOD JOURNALING
I WROTE OF MY LIFE EXPERIENCES
BEING A MILITARY WIFE STATIONED
IN GERMANY WORKING FOR USAF AS
A DAYCARE TEACHERS READING TO
HUNDREDS OF CHILDRENS ALL SPEAKING
DIFFERENT LANGUAGES LIVING IN
EUROPE INSPIRED ME TO WRITER
CHILDRENS BOOKS FOLKLORES I
LIVE IN MUNICH GERMANY TOY TOWN
CHRISTMAS TOY THE TOWN OF THOMAS
MANN MY MIND SOARED I WROTE OF
FRAUENKIRCHE OUR LADY OF MUNICH
WHERE I MET CARDINAL RATZINGER
WHERE THE FAMOUS TELSFELSTRICT
THE FOOT PRINT OF THE DEVIL WAS LEFT
WHEN LOCAL LORES SAYS VON POLLEN
WAS APPROACHED BY SATAN
TO CLOSE OFF THE NAVE INSTEAD
OF HAVING WINDOWS I ADORED
MUNICH MARIANPLATZ A TOWN
DEDICATED TO MOTHER MARY TOURING
EUROPE ITALY MY GRANDFATHER
SERVIVING IN ROME PROTECTING
THE PRIEST I AM NO SCHOLAR WORKING
FOR THE USAF BEING A MILITARY WIFE
YOU LEARN TO APPECIATE MANY CULTURES
I WROTE OF MEETING CICELY TYSON
DURING HER DEBUT FOR THE MOVIE
SOUNDER SHE VISITED MY 3RD GRADE
CLASS YOU NEVER KNOW WHO WILL
INSPIRE YOU MY WRITING WAS AND
STILL IS UNCONTROLLABLE ITS PART
OF MY DISABILITY UNCONTROLLABLE
WRITING TRIGGERED BY MY
UNCONTROLLABLE NEED TO READ
EVERY LICENSE PLATES IN MY MIND
THESE ARE THREATS MESSAGES FROM
MY WEARING WIRES PREGNANT
FOR THE FBI I SUFFERED A COMPLETE
MENTAL BREAK CHRONIC PTSD ANXIETY
PANIC DEPRESSIONS SUICIDAL
THOUGHTS CREEP IN ONCE THE
WRITING STOPS YOU MIND CAN'T
TAKE THE SILENCE AS WITH VIRGINIA
WOOLF HER VERY BEST WRITING WAS
FROM A MENTAL HOSPITAL PLAGUED
WITH DEPRESSION MENTAL ILLNESS
AND UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING
RESULTED IN HER TO PUT STONES
IN HER POCKETS AND WALK
OUT INTO THE LAKE HAVING
A MENTAL ILLNESS OF THE MIND
THAT CAUSES UNCONTROLLABLE
WRITING ESCALATED FOR ME ONCE
MY BRAIN WAS BROKEN BY TRAUMATIC
BRAIN INJURY THE BRAIN DESPERATE
TO STAY ALIVE IT SENDS A CHEMICAL
IMBALANCE CAUSING UNCONTROLLABLE
WRITING ALL DAY JOURNALING
BECOMES A MEDICAL NEED I WAS
TAUNTED TEASED BROKEN MESSEGES
IF YOU ONLY HAD A BRAIN MY WRITING
IS FOR COPING HEALING SURVIVING
MENTAL ILLNESS BEING EMOTIONALLY
CRIPPLED UNABLE TO BE IN CROWDS
OR TO CROSS A STREET CAUSED ME
GREAT STRESS IT WAS TRULY A BLESSING
THAT I HAD WRITTEN MY LIFE EXPERIENCES
TRAVELING TO EUROPE STATIONED IN
GERMANY THE CULTURE OF THOMAS MANN
NO I'M NO SCHOLAR I CAN'T STAND UP
IN A CROWD AND READ MY WORK
ANXIETY PANIC ATTACKS HEART ATTACK
MY WRITING IS FOR HEALING PTSD
SOOTHING PANIC ATTACKS COMFORTING
TRAUMATIC EVENTS QUIETING
THE VOICES THE HEART BEATS THE
CONVERSATIONS WIRE TAPS STRAPPED
TO MY WOMB THIS SENT ME INTO
A SUICIDAL STATE SPIRITUAL WONDERING
WHAT DAMAGES WAS DONE TO MY
FETUS BEGGING GODS FORGIVENESS
BEGGING GOD TO ALLOW ME TO KILL
MYSELF AND GO TO HEAVEN SHOCKING
MY BROKEN BRAIN SIGNALED ME TO
WRITE UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING
MY MENTAL ILLNESS LEFT ME WRITING
CONSTANTLY UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING
BECAUSE I WASN'T A SCHOLAR
JUST A RETARD WRITING ABOUT
PANIC ATTACKS HEADACHES BRAIN
INJURY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
WEARING WIRES PREGNANT MY CHILDREN
HEARING MY FETUS HEART BEATS
I WROTE ABOUT BEING MENTALLY
CRIPPLED THE RETARDED POET
FROM CHICAGO FBI INFORMANT
IN HIDING MAROON DRAPES
PANIC ATTACKS IN FLORIDA WITH
A BRUISED BRAIN I NEVER FORGOT
WHO I WAS WRITING FOR MY
CHILDREN GRAND WRITING
TO SAVE MY BRAIN FROM DYING
I WAS THE RETARDED POET
FROM CHICAGO MAXWELL STREET
SOUTH WATER MARKET CLINICALLY
DEPRESSED SUICIDAL WRITING THE BLUES
MY OWN KIND OF BLUES RETARDED
POET FROM CHICAGO JEW TOWN
THE VILLAGE I AM COMPLETELY ADORED
THANK GOD FOR GIVING ME THE GIFT
OF WRITING BLESSINGS EDITING
YOUR WORK IS MUCH EASIER NOW
WITH TECHNOLOGY TODAY GRAMMER
CORRECTING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
HOWEVER I STILL KNOW I AM
A RETARDED POET AND THAT'S
OKAY MY POETRY IS NOT SCHOLAR
MATERIAL THEY ARE A MENTAL
HEALTH JOURNAL JUST POEMS
I WROTE WHILE HELPING MY KIDS
WITH THEIR HOME WORK THEY
ARE TEACHERS ARCHITECTS
STEM AERO SPACE ENGINEERS
GIFTED GENUSIS HONOR SOCIETY
ARMY AIRFORCE DRONE PILOTS
THERAPIST I'M SO BLESSED
I AM BEAUTIFUL I AM BROKEN
I AM BLESSED I AM ME I AM
A RETARDED AMERICAN POET
GOD BLESS AMERICA
I AM LIVING PROOF THAT
ANY RETARD COULD
TRULY BE A POET
USA
Copyright © Yolanda Joy Nicholsen | Year Posted 2025
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