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Best Wheelchair Poems

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


Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: wheelchair, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: wheelchair, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member March 19 Memories
Mama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
15 years ago..you breathed your last
and I still see you in dreams
and I still miss you, Mama

I’m sitting here
in front of...

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Categories: wheelchair, death, faith, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Miracle On Ford Street
St Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...

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Categories: wheelchair, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When I Talk To You
When I talk to you, I'm talking to the wall -
to photos arranged across from where you hung the paintings
made by your own two hands....

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Categories: wheelchair, absence, woman,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Who I Would Bring Back
Who would I bring back, if I had only one
Perhaps a great leader, Kennedy or Lincoln

Or I could choose a musical icon
Such as John Lennon...

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Categories: wheelchair, memory, mother, nostalgia, woman,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Microshot
When looking for a quack with spiked rates
Some try the Windowed Office of Bill Gates
Coz right on the spot
He’ll give you a shot
But be prepared...

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Categories: wheelchair, angst, corruption,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Teardrop
I
ask
you to
mind our
earth, heed
our existence
upon it, care for
 our lives and all that
will occur if we cannot
consider beyond ourselves, 
if we are guided by uncertainty,
when...

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Categories: wheelchair, abuse, death, earth, life,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus

Poets are like magicians.
They trick the heart into feeling, 
“things” they had no idea, were there at all. 

Sadly poets don’t always know how...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wheelchair, 12th grade, abortion, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Littlest Snowman
He scooped and he packed
He rolled me good and round,
When all was done, I stood there
Only three feet off the ground

I had wondered why...
Why did...

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Categories: wheelchair, boy, brother, children, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Just Yesterday
Just yesterday
I was crying
Leaving home for the 1st grade
7th, 10th, 12th
Just yesterday
I threw that cap in the air
Bright eyed
Facing the world

Wow, who is that girl
My...

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Categories: wheelchair, age, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mr. Truly Amazing
Sixteen years old and in a world of her own
Confined to life lived in a wheelchair
Ever since birth, doctors don’t know what went wrong
But, it...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wheelchair, animals, inspirationalfamily, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanilla Pudding
nobody sees you the way I do
in your wheelchair
with your unopenable arms
where everything crashes to a gray twisted landscape

my brother
alpha male
of demon strut clashes
in our...

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Categories: wheelchair, angst, bullying, caregiving, child
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Handicap Beach
My Handicap Beach


As I lay here and look out the window from our hotel at the absolutely amazing view..
It makes me wonder how something so...

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Categories: wheelchair, blessing, emotions, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden Beauty
Her smile was lopsided, crooked
And her eyes had lost their shine
In a wheelchair bound and broken
Sat this mother dear of mine

Once the one that they...

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Categories: wheelchair, mother, tribute,
Form: Quatrain

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