Best Down Syndrome Poems

My face may be different but my feeling is the same.
I laugh and I cry and take pride in my gains.
I was sent here among...

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Down syndrome
It is like a landscape that labour under dark clouds
when I remember, the call I got from former woman friends
she had broken up with...

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Whining wailers never know when, 
opportune moments ever begin. 
An angry man hath his eyes closed, 
not a bit of triumph ever he knows. 

I...

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From a distance what I saw
in a Down Syndrome child
was a human in the raw—
forgettable, lamentable, wild.

My prejudice was abhorrent
dismissing a "different" being.
Disdain came in...

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In a magical world
She slides down a rainbow
Of tinkling laughter
Landing in a pot of gold.

Covered in pixie dust she twirls.
Fingers clicking, head-bobbing,
Feet tapping, humming
To a...

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The Ugly Goldfish

Beauty they say lies in the eyes of the beholder
So in a nut shell beauty may not exactly be seen as the impressive...

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B e the first to hear this 
R ight from  the horse's mouth
E verytime I think of you, I
A ct foolishly 
K ind of...

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Everyone has a desire to communicate
just because you don't understand them
doesn't mean they're not trying to tell you something
being able to be there, to work...

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It was my moral duty to operate and in many people's eyes, I was admired.
I did what needed to be done and because of that,...

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Heavenly Things

Eggs for breakfast and oatmeal with honey
Buffets with sushi and boyfriends with money
The tranquil room when my roommate's sleeping
These are a few of my...

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A cheering squad in Utah,
At a high school, did include
A member with Down Syndrome 
With a bubbly attitude.

She worked extra hard at practice 
And was...

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"What is Civility to you?"

Civility
[si-vil-i-tee]
–noun,plural-ties. 
1.courtesy; politeness. 
2.polite action or expression: an exchange of civilities. 
3.Archaic. civilization; culture; good breeding. 

So Civility is being polite;
like...

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The sweetest display of affection I've witnessed was that of a Down syndrome child who'd dove into bed with an oversized teddy bear, easily double...

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I have no comfort,
to bring to you… 
No drum to start a song. 
No gift for innocence. 

I have never lost a child. 
Let me...

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