Adventure Disability Poems

I’m not a shrinking violet
Who is happy to 
Just fade and disappear,
I want to take the world
By the scruff of the neck
And let it know...

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Pandora's Equation
 
The box was beautiful. 
It held everything ugly in one place. 
It was meant to be a prison, 
to create safety on the...

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And 

Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies. 
These are the things
we live with, in the country. 
Some you step on, 
some travel in your clothes,...

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Staged or Stagnant

The gathering of people, 
from here and there, 
and everywhere, 
made possible 
by time. 

What is important to each person, 
yet more important...

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Not stuck in a chair
I'm empowered by my wheels
Wheelchairs give freedom...

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Unfair Calories 

Chocolate cake, 
can be eaten fast or slow. 
Depends on who, 
is at the end of the fork. 
But I tell you true,...

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Tomorrow's Yesterday

Changes are the hardest part of living. 
Just when you get used to things, 
good or bad, they become worse...
rarely better. 
Depressive as it...

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Used by the Muse

Here I sit, after the holidays. 
Everything is quiet, 
and waiting for the big party, 
to end the year. 

Struggling on page...

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The Big Mountain

In the distance, 
I gaze at the giant before me. 
Cliff faces, I can not climb today, 
but tomorrow... I will. 

I have...

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Wheelchairs
Chariots in Heaven

I tell you now in earnest, 
there is a secret behind all things, 
real and unreal, 
set and unset, 
tangible...
believable...
and knowable, 
to your...

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Holiday Rush

I am so tired, 
I can not think clearly. 
I have had too much coffee, 
and of course...
too little sleep. 
That goes with the...

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My City Cowboy

You don't wear boots, 
not the fancy ones...
unless there is a;
marriage, birth or death.
Otherwise, it is work shoes, 
steel-toed, 
and seldom shiny. 

Plain...

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The Names of Angels

Caren, 
Sharon, 
Joy, 
Mary and Lee...
Do not fear, 
the names here, 
and you will see.

There are more, 
there are others, 
you know...

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To Heaven

My Lord, my King, 
my Sovereign Father, 
mercy and grace.
The finest flowers for the 
hour of Your birth. 

Lost are the souls born of...

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Your Sweet Face

The first thing I see
looking at me, 
are your eyes.
Like the deep of space, 
grabbing my soul, 
and sending it outward, 
beyond. 
Where...

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