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Handicapped Poems - Poems about Handicapped

Handicapped Poems - Examples of all types of poems about handicapped to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for handicapped.
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member How Many Poets Did I Know Growing Up
... How many poets did I know growing up I knew doctors, lawyers and bricklayers Teachers, bookkeepers, naysayers Local politicians and crossing guards ‘Handicapped’ people, we call......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, growing up, humor, irony,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Matter Of Faith
... When I was a child, I wondered Was deep sleep, death? Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation? Waking up, I found the people around me were the same I was the same too, not......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, allusion, creation, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Musings On Faith
...I fix on that flickering flame burning from far away. That always seems to me as though bright stars in an array This calls me like a mother or father calling their child. Waving hands with love, ......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandma and Abuela
...My Grandmother’s kitchen was different than my Abuela’s Grandma had snacks, watermelon Abuelita had meals made from horas en la cocina and never leaving it Abuela ordered pollo from la esq......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Old
...I'm old, I'm old I'll die if I catch cold I tried to skip But snapped my hip I'm old I'm old I'm old.......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, age, angst, anxiety, death,
Form: Lyric
Waves
...BEGINING, none that I perceive; where that dot in time where the dot or seed, where the trigger and the stripey tiger that leaps ahead of itself? Then the linear sprouting’s along an arro......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Unrelenting Guilt
...Forgive my thoughts unstoppable Feeling wrong is natural as bone Don't overthink the morning with doubt The voice of God is in shameful thoughts Forgive packing oily lunch for my son Accept th......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, father, forgiveness, god, trust,
Form: Free verse
Victims of Thalidomite
...It’s not a dreaded story, created by Grimms*, but shouldn’t it horror in us and reflection ignite? Ten thousand children born with malformed limbs and brain defects, which were caused by thalidomi......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, abuse, baby, birth, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Daphne and Jack, a Romance of the High Seas
...Listen, my dears, and I'll tell you a tale Of a princess, a pirate, and glory. There's a shipwreck, a rescue, A romance, a ransom, And a handicapped whale in the story. There once was a prince......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, adventure, humor, princess, romance,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I Am From I Am
...Who am I? Why am I here? From whence did I come, And to where am I going? What is my purpose and Ultimate destiny? How will I get there? I am MIND and I am BODY. Am I not both and so much......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, bible, body, god, men,
Form: Verse
Promoting My Odd
...Afraid that a slip May render me maimed I’ll likely lose grip Of all that I’ve tamed I’ll wind up behind With weights on my shoes Handicapped and blind There’s too much to lose I’ll ne......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, anxiety, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cerihew Brown
...Christy Brown have you heard of he one of 23 children ,he was to be Severely handicapped was his calling yet his poetics made others sing......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member How Do Children Sleep At Night
...It's a wonder young children still turn out all right With the stuff that gets crammed in their heads every night. Things like visions of sugar plum fairies and sprites, Or a thousand tales of Ara......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, children, humor, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Handicapped
...you know I’ll break with a straw on my back ~ remove the hump then we’ll see By David Kavanagh......Read the rest...
Categories: handicapped, allusion, deep, strength,
Form: Monoku

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