Long Obe Poems

An out of body experience?
I hadn’t thought it might be that.
I only knew that something happened
that was strange and a bit scary,
and it has happened twice.

Both of these times I was driving my car
in a...

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“With Education you can change the world”

I was a fly on the wall and I saw...                   ...

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These words are woven
With threads of tear
Laced in the needle of anguish.

In truth, I can tell of how it feels
To be pinched by piercing pain.

My soul is scissored
My heart, ripped apart
My mind refuse to mend.
And...

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OBE
I never really believed in the white light
At the end of a tunnel-try as I might
I was having a laugh with the anaesthetist
When the surgeon did ask him for a quick assist
“Why is she not...

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Hovering over my body, my soul is liberated,
like the caged bird set free, spreading my wings
completely separated from the physical world
in a timeless state of mind.
I float weightless as if in a dream, though I...

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David Wier OBE started out with a crowd of only five, 
Watching him race in the fast track events very alive,
In the swift wheelchair races, as he is spinally injured, 
From his birth, and could...

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Sophie gained a MSci degree from London University,
In 2011, when she was 23, and was born prematurely,
So her Cerebral Palsy meant that post operation rehab,
Came thru the Riding for the Disabled Association, fab. 

She loved...

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A view from a teaspoon selection is very spellbinding indeed. Half a cup of multicolumns and a pint of milk singing and swaying together. It takes much effort to pick up a seed. Much kilograms...

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I
of
warped words
& soundless mind
out of mindless sight
no(some)where
blurring into
the No-Go Realm
(chasing cunning
cryptic clouds
of thoughtcrimes)

I touch
no man's land
out never
where I'm supposed
to be or
not begin

I am there
not here
catastrophically
contemplating
caricatures
of contorted
mindscapes

I am here or there
out of control
cleverly out of sorts
sorting...

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Clippity Cloppity
    Emily Davison
    confronted race horses
    losing her life

    dissident suffragette
    indiscriminately
    committed sabotage
  ...

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Sarah Storey was the first disabled athlete, 
In the Commonwealth Games to compete, 
As an English competitor, and she’s thrice, 
Able-bodied national track champion of ice.  

She was born without a left hand, entangled,...

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Disturbed  over what she had planned
for tomorrow. Often times she refused to
me as included with her plans.

What sweet sonnets sing ye
the sound of togetherness
tangled with romance
an evening of love
a night to dance
Yes you my...

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YOUR DAY WILL COME 

Wherever you go, where er may roam, 
wherever your gift will obe day make room,
There you’ll be, for those who’ll see, 
you’re going to get your bloom.

However long it takes, your...

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I did some Wicca before my obe
(As then I was experimenting)
I went into a dream world
And this caused my obe
I saw some fascinating things
I was floating in the sky
With my friend right next to me

Neither...

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Losing my seat

To explain regarding my train,
I left my seat seeking tea,
Up on my feet, out of my seat,
Asking a near neighbour to keep,
A close eye on my bag,
Not a difficult feat,
So after my sojourn,
I...

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Sascha Kindred OBE was born in 1997,
And is married to swimmer Nyree Lewis, 
Another gold-winning Paralympian, and,
They’re known as the “golden-couple”. 

Sascha’s CP solely affects his right side,
And he was born in Münster, Germany, 
He’s...

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Born in Walsall but growing up in Aldridge, 
Ellie was born with achondroplasia to bridge, 
She ended up at Olchfa School in Swansea, 
With a larger swimming pool, destiny to see. 

She was born on the...

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(“Nonbinary”, 2023, original encaustic)

Who Are The Good Guys?

It’s a simple question and obvious assumption
But the “good guys” are always “us”
And not them.

And yet all around us, all the time
We see people changing sides
Growing up, becoming...

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The darling of my heartling
Could do no better acting
With a bouquet,
Like a valet,
He turned me all scarlet!
 
Armed with his old pen, he hid in his den
And wrote for me, love verses, just like a...

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Brexit Sonnet No.20
‘No More Hell-Broth’
 

Our Brexit bringers are cross with their leader ‘tis said,
Confidence lost with their gabardine dream of last year.
The model’s moved on, but distress on how they are led
Is causing them...

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Flat is my world
as the sun passes by
each day
inspite of all Copernicus
had to say.
Perception deceptions precede
the paranormal state
while souls traveling light years
in a parallel universe
gather in the air to stare.
My head snaps
looking into emptiness
while the...

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I write Letters 

Letters in 
Letters to you
Letters in the bin
Letters written sin 
Letters for your thoughts 
Letters once read 
Letters by the bed 
Letters in 
Letters best said ..
Basildon Bond
Letters after me name 
Letters...

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As setting sun trails off behind a peak,
I lie in utter lone tranquility
here tethered to my earthly home.  I seek
a sundering. . .  A new mobility.

I focus on the hidden, inner me,
forgetting awkward...

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Lee Pearson is a para-equestrian athlete, 
Because in horse jumping he does compete, 
And has arlthrogryposis multiplex congenita,
Which he was born with in 1974, not bitter.

He’s a ten-times paralympic gold medalist,
‘Cos since Sydney 2000 he’s...

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