Best Paralympic Poems

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 sad story

29th November 2015
Jan Allison
Contest: Fallen Hero
Sponsor Nette Onclaud
word count 29 words


Written about Oscar Pistorius...

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Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius
Paralympic athlete - victorious
Guilty of homicide
No longer glorified

NOT for contest

05~29~15...

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Melissa always dreamed of being a beach lifeguard, 
But when it got to the age when she asked about it, 
She was told she could not because of her eye sight, 
Since she is visually impaired and so can't see well. 

Whilst studying sports science...

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Lauren is originally a Paralympic swimmer, 
But her uncle guided her into the triathlon, 
A third of which involves outdoor swimming, 
And did her first one in 2011, came second. 

Born without a lower right arm, she’s won, 
Many a Paralympic, World and Euro title,...

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Simon started playing wheelchair basketball, 
Aged twelve at a school community project, 
And under coach Ian Laker accepted the call, 
To play with London Titans so as to connect. 

In 2008 he debuted at the Beijing Paralympics, 
He and the GBR squad won the bronze...

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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 of London 2012,
And into the category T44 he does neatly delve.

He was born in Cambridge, that old university town,
But at...

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Harry was born on the 20th June 1994,
And is a wheelchair basketball player, 
Who at the 2012 Paras was the barer, 
Of the Paralympic Flag, he went afore.
 
He’s a 2.5 player and his team’s won,
Many Championships, World and Euro, 
In 2011, in Nazareth with...

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Ellie became instantly popular on Twitter, 
For her Rio entrance to the 50m butterfly, 
Which became known affectionately as, 
The “gangster entrance”, her huge jacket.  

Ellie was diagnosed in November of 2012,
Just after the London Paralympic Games, 
When she was inspired by Ellie Simmonds,...

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Joe’s triathlon consisted of a 750m swim, 
A hand bike race which covered 20km,
And then a wheelchair race for 5km grim: 
Joe collapsed on the Rio finish line fen. 

But he came sixth, a good Royal Marine, 
Stepped on an IED in Helmand in 2008,
Both...

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Oliver is the cox of the LTA mixed cox four team, 
And graduated from Warwick Uni in Philosophy, 
Where he started rowing at once in his first year, 
Soon to become the cox of lively rhythmic orality. 

After graduating, in his time in the summer...

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Zoe was born 1992 and is a Paralympic powerlifter,
Who was born with growth hormone deficiency,
In Ipswich, she attended East Bergholt school, lifter,
And enjoyed the Suffolk School Games, proficiency.

She tried the sport of powerlifting for the first time,
In 2006, and as a result of the thrill...

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Sophie was born with an abnormal right foot, 
So when she was nine she chose amputation, 
She comes from Camden then moved to Bath, 
And now studies at Bath College Illustration. 

In 2011 she went to a Playground to Podium,
Event at Bath University because she...

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Jamie plays the sport of boccia, 
Where you throw your six balls, 
Towards the jack with another, 
And whoever is nearest, calls. 

Jamie has Duchenne Muscular
Dystropy like his brother Scott, 
Who’s older. They both blether, 
So life’s easier in Jamie’s spot. 

Scott made it to...

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Simon has been to 7 Paralympic games, 
Starting with Barcelona and including Rio, 
He has a silver from Atlanta - 1992 planes,
A bronze Athens 2004, a bronze 2008 trio.

After a night out on his way home, shortcut, 
He tripped and fell onto a live railway...

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Lee Pearson is a para-equestrian athlete, 
Because in horse jumping he does compete, 
And has arlthrogryposis multiplex congenita,
Which he was born with in 1974, not bitter.

He’s a ten-times paralympic gold medalist,
‘Cos since Sydney 2000 he’s a perfectionist;
He won three gold in the 2000, 2004, 2008,
In...

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