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Best Amputee Poems

Below are the all-time best Amputee poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of amputee poems written by PoetrySoup members


Amputee
I wore my heart on my sleeve
Til you cut off my arms...

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Categories: amputee, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: amputee, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Photogragh of a Redwood Stump In Sepia
 The human spirit needs places where
nature has not been rearranged
by the hand of man
Author Unknown

A metal rail now mocks the space

where a massive trunk...

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Categories: amputee, environment, nature, sad, tree,
Form: Free verse
Steadfast Grit
Subtitled:  I'll Walk Again

Some tomorrow soon, I shall walk again,
though not as I walked in days past.
To reach that doorway - my foremost campaign
and...

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Categories: amputee, 11th grade, beach, courage,
Form: Verse
Little Boy
Little boy with a toy gun
Dreams of all that might be fun
To be fully clad in combat gear
And go into battle with no fear
A hero...

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Categories: amputee, betrayal, corruption, hero, soldier,
Form: Rhyme



Tree Stump Love
Dr. Seuss wrote of a strong Lorax
Who tried to save Earth’s Truffula Trees
From a foolish “Onceler’s” hacking ax

The Lorax warnings disregarded
Onceler used up the trees’...

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Categories: amputee, naturesad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 100 Years On
One hundred years ago in 1921
The 15th of May a new charity begun
Amalgamating  charities of which there were  4
The Royal British Legion set up to...

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Categories: amputee, history, memorial, military, remembrance
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Driving in the Snow with One Windshield Wiper
Diagonal snow
Glides effortless through
the countryside of the
Amputee windshield
For the passenger side
Has always had a reticent view

Steam rises loftily
From a topless treat
Of gas station coffee
That which...

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Categories: amputee, loneliness, memory, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
Answer It
Bobby is an amputee
He's got no elbows got no knees
But Bobby moves- to some degree
When Bobby bobs across the sea...

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Categories: amputee, abuse, addiction, allah,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Avoiding Amputation
I watched the sailfish spring from the sea

Had no wings, an enigma to me

     Why in flight did it embark?
 ...

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Categories: amputee, animals, funny, sea
Form: Limerick
Daniel Doc Jacobs
He's the one they call "Doc",
tending to those who need his care,
always putting others before himself,
whether in foreign land, sea or by air.
Here's his story,...

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Categories: amputee, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fallen Hero
Double amputee, you astounded the world by running to paralympic glory
Tragically you slayed your girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
Now you’ve fallen from favour with fans with this...

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Categories: amputee, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Slamming Dakarai Cobb Part 3
I'm going for an alley-oop, dunking on your head like "Shaq"
Home court advantage here on the soup, and I'm ducking and dodging your wack 
attack!
I'm...

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Categories: amputee, dedication, fantasy, slamslam, me,
Form: Rhyme
A Boiler In My Dog's Stomach
My dog's stomach sounded like a washing machine set on high and hot.
He was laying between my mother and me Off the couch,
but not because...

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Categories: amputee, animal, anxiety, dog, humor,
Form: Free verse
Jonnie Peacock
Jonnie Peacock was born on 28th May in 1993, 
And is an English sprinter and right leg amputee, 
He won gold in the vital games...

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Categories: amputee, body, character, cool, courage,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs