Disability poem Who Is Disabled?
...Who is disabled?
Is it me, or is it you?
Should disability be based
On an anatomical stock-take,
Or based on what you can do?
For I can climb mountains,
I can soar through the sky,
And I can...
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Categories:
disablement, care, character, deep, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Disability poem Pl-ease
...Don’t see only our disabilit-ease,
Don’t deny us basic facilit-ease,
Don’t ignore our many abilit-ease,
Don’t compound our varied difficult-ease,
Deal head-on with the harsh realit-ease.
You n...
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Categories:
disablement, angst, anxiety, destiny, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
A Woman's Cleavage
...A man's ability to think is related to the sight of a woman's cleavage
Reduces a man's ability to think by as much as 50% per boob, no secret
Genetics are used
As drools doth ooze
Can't t...
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Categories:
disablement, emotions,
Form: Limerick
Living With a Myth
...Living With A Myth
How dares one to speak of disability and live with it to tell the story narrate
the hardship soft embrace of active vibrant vital being ‘other’ different...
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Categories:
disablement, society,
Form: Free verse
Osprey
...Wide wings with dark fingery tips
Fan tail of duplicate feathers
From beneath: a small white bird, wearing a glamorous white-grey-brown coat
A black moon sits in the middle of staring round yellow...
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Categories:
disablement, bird,
Form: Narrative
My Life
...The faking of a smile
A pondering of a thought
The tear of an eye
A sound of weeping from afar
The trickle of blood running down my wrist
A readiness for the end
The conclusion that it wasn't w...
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Categories:
disablement, loss, longing,
Form: I do not know?