Long Down syndrome Poems

"What is Civility to you?"

Civility
[si-vil-i-tee]
–noun,plural-ties. 
1.courtesy; politeness. 
2.polite action or expression: an exchange of civilities. 
3.Archaic. civilization; culture; good breeding. 

So Civility is being polite;
like opening doors for others or saying God bless you when...

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The sweetest display of affection I've witnessed was that of a Down syndrome child who'd dove into bed with an oversized teddy bear, easily double her size...
And fought her way in 'til the arms of...

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Better days are here
Down down it all goes 
It will all vanish
Your properties will be no more 
Your wealth will be a history
Your ambitions will live no more 
Down down it all goes 
It all...

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The Ugly Goldfish

Beauty they say lies in the eyes of the beholder
So in a nut shell beauty may not exactly be seen as the impressive appearance one finds looking back at the mirror
but a power...

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Down syndrome
It is like a landscape that labour under dark clouds
when I remember, the call I got from former woman friends
she had broken up with me because she was pregnant 
with Dutch fellow from Amsterdam...

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It was my moral duty to operate and in many people's eyes, I was admired.
I did what needed to be done and because of that, I was fired.
Four years ago, a baby was born with...

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Everyone has a desire to communicate
just because you don't understand them
doesn't mean they're not trying to tell you something
being able to be there, to work on being able to recieve the message
Just because someone doesn't...

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Whining wailers never know when, 
opportune moments ever begin. 
An angry man hath his eyes closed, 
not a bit of triumph ever he knows. 

I smile and nod my gratitude,
to vets in wheelchairs "in their...

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Hello friends! This is my first bilingual book.HAMMER @ ANVIL BOOKS released my book of 
poems as e-book on AMAZON Kindle: http: //www.amazon.com/A-Feather-of-Fujiyama-
ebook/dp/B 00E5XY5PO/ref=sr_1_1? s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1374938945&sr=1-1
 Special thanks to Vessislava Savova (translator) , Mercedes Webb-Pullman (Editor)...

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A cheering squad in Utah,
At a high school, did include
A member with Down Syndrome 
With a bubbly attitude.

She worked extra hard at practice 
And was liked by all who cheered,
But when she received her yearbook,
Her...

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From a distance what I saw
in a Down Syndrome child
was a human in the raw—
forgettable, lamentable, wild.

My prejudice was abhorrent
dismissing a "different" being.
Disdain came in a torrent
driven by cold-eyed seeing.

Then came a close-up look
at a...

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My face may be different but my feeling is the same.
I laugh and I cry and take pride in my gains.
I was sent here among you to teach and to love as God in the...

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Heavenly Things

Eggs for breakfast and oatmeal with honey
Buffets with sushi and boyfriends with money
The tranquil room when my roommate's sleeping
These are a few of my favorite things

Criminal Minds and sermons of Joel Osteen 
Girl with...

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I have no comfort,
to bring to you… 
No drum to start a song. 
No gift for innocence. 

I have never lost a child. 
Let me cry now.

My most precious prayers,
to our heavenly Lord,
for every comfort,...

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Sitting in his room 
Shivering on the floor
Wrapped up in a baby blanket
With flying elephants pictures of
Blue and white
Sutrum with his thumb in his mouth
A 6 year old disturbed child

Frightened by the sound of a...

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In a magical world
She slides down a rainbow
Of tinkling laughter
Landing in a pot of gold.

Covered in pixie dust she twirls.
Fingers clicking, head-bobbing,
Feet tapping, humming
To a song only she can hear. 

My Down Syndrome princess,
A gentle...

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