Best Down Syndrome Poems


Down Syndrome

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 you to teach and to love as God in the heavens looks down from above.
To Him I’m no different, His love knows no bounds.
It’s those here among you in cities and towns that judge me by standards that man has imparted,
But this family I’ve chosen will help me get started.
For I’m one of the children so special and few that came here to learn the same lesson as you.
That love is acceptance, it must come from the heart; we all have the same purpose, though not the same start.
The Lord gave me life to live and embrace,
and I’ll do it as you do but at my own pace.

Down Syndrome

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 me because she was pregnant 
with Dutch fellow from Amsterdam 
15 years later she rang me -I`m old fashion do not change
my phone number often- the Dutchman had gone old and
returned to Holland, that his daughter was really mine
if I would come and say hallo.
I went to her house but wisely had my wife with me, my 
“Daughter” was 14 and had the Down syndrome, a nice little
person who likes to hug and kiss people, I had no knowledge 
whether she was my daughter or not and there is nothing 
about this disabled child that reminded her of me except she 
has diabetes. 
I could have taken blood test to ascertain if it was my child
I didn`t want to know the result, didn`t want to be bothered.
My wife was angry said I was egocentric, so I agreed to let her 
visit us for a few days every month.
The woman I had sex with, twenty years ago says the girl need
this and that, new shoes but, not bought at a Chinese shop
I ignore that and walk her about in the village as I did my dog,
stroke her hair tell her she is a nice girl,
but no, I can`t get it into my head that she is my daughter.

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                                       Jacob loved lullabies
                                      could see it in his eyes

                                  He listens and communicates
                                using movements, no rule relates

                                 Skilled at drawing and painting
                                  I rarely hear him complaining

                                   It's fun to play Super Mario
                                    but, Superman is his hero

                                   Jacob flies around all day
                                a completely normal child's play


Sunday Cur Man

Down's Syndrome is such a big scare
Because it happens everywhere
So clinics should close
Since everyone knows
The greedy need more than their share*


*90% of the cases at one clinic are
attributed to Down's Syndrome but
the GOP won't fund research -  nor
prevention - as all the GOP needs 
is "approved" voters who vote
the party line

An Ode To My Uncle Lorne

A Happy Go Lucky Guy
With Down Syndrome
And Autism

A Tennis Ball Bouncing Guy
It’s what I remember about you
Every time I saw you

A Happy Go Lucky Guy
With Down Syndrome
And Autism

A guy saying
Go, Go, Go
All the time

A Happy Go Lucky Guy
With Down Syndrome
And Autism

An artist in later life
Enjoying sitting at the table
Engulphed with paints.

A Happy Go Lucky Guy
With Down Syndrome
And Autism
Living your best life

Uncle Lorne
You will be missed
By all who knew you

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