Short Amputee Poems

I wore my heart on my sleeve
Til you cut off my arms...

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Bobby is an amputee
He's got no elbows got no knees
But Bobby moves- to some degree
When Bobby bobs across the sea...

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If ever I refuse your apology
  Your supplication is rendered an amputee

If ever I leap off the bridge to end it all
  ~ But for myself, I have not the gall...

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mind numbing pain free
        without meds where would we be
                    old school misery 
               whiskey for an amputee 
                 biting sticks in agony...

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I watched the sailfish spring from the sea

Had no wings, an enigma to me

     Why in flight did it embark?
     
     Pursuit by a great white shark

Its sail would soon be an amputee...

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Been thinking a lot about aging lately
Don't think being an adult is working for me
Got as far as my teens
Yearning for teen queens
One got pregnant, dada wants to make me an amputee...

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Every night I cry
myself to sleep for I
cannot see the point
in life after you die
My world shattering 
all around me
My quivering heart 
an amputee
It doesn't matter at all
I'm just waiting for the fall...

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Listen to poem:

A mute voice challenge not, less confusion,

Blind perceive their course for their path is set,

A cripple waywardness is known to them,

The amputee, depth is stored in their breadth,

Frame trait, sex gland, gender--human, not threat.


Date: 08/16/2019...

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SOUND FOREIGN COMPANION
FAILED WOUND MESSIAH
SPELLS UNBLOOMING NOTE
AMPUTEE BAND SUPERNOVA
EXPLODES FROM UNIVERSE END
ETERNITY BELLOWING THROAT
HEAT SUTRA -- MILLION DEATHS! 
CLEAVE BLACK
BEE HIVE ONTOLOGY LIQUID
WET BETWEEN THE GAP
FUTURE PAST WITHIN YOU SPEAKS! 
"WAIT. T U R N  B A C K!"...

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o darling where are you
silence befalls me
like a fog thick in the night
i drift through lonely days
through arid lands
i’m an amputee a wanderer
in a maze in a haze in a daze
with you gone



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on July 5, 2021 for A BRIAN STRAND contest sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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Insane
I turn around
an amputee

to live, for not living
fighting the inner war
speared,
lacerated,
like neanderthal in cave

my weapon
the serrated moon
cried in fluted dark

a glimpse of bare bones
the ash of a bleeding dawn
my shuttered courage
in urn
there was only one evening



SATISH VERMA...

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Insane
I turn around
an amputee

to live, for not living
fighting the inner war
speared,
lacerated,
like neanderthal in cave

my weapon
the serrated moon
cried in fluted dark

a glimpse of bare bones
the ash of a bleeding dawn
my shuttered courage
in urn
there was only one evening



SATISH VERMA...

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Double amputee, you astounded the world by running to paralympic glory
Tragically you slayed your girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
Now you’ve fallen from favour with fans with this sad story

29th November 2015
Jan Allison
Contest: Fallen Hero
Sponsor Nette Onclaud
word count 29 words


Written about Oscar Pistorius...

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A leached amputee
living with stumps of flawless
dying.

Round and round, blindfolded
moving in circle, drawn by rhyming
bells.

Perhaps you need to suffer
with the drunken race of
snipers.

I am in the silent valley of
barefoot secrets where moon waits to
die.

The poppies will buy the bullets,
a gift to unending kiss of
grief.

Tell every vulture on the tree,
there is endless arrival of 
feasts.



SATISH VERMA...

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Never needed LSD,

seeing things that could not be,

rejecting my own ESP,

I swim the Sea of Apathy,

traverse the Desert of Ennui,

emotions under lock and key,

internalize the wild banshee.


Toddler's rolled up dungarees,

bemuse the double-amputee,

heart bestrewn with life's debris,

none of us get off scotfree.


Handcuff life's evacuees,

so tender is Humanity.


©Danielle White...

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Blinded by the flash, the mirror causes cataracts.
Shocking actions, and taken back by this flesh.
Silhouettes on the wall, grinning at the darkness.
Feels warm on the outside, chilled on the inside.
Pain is all that is real, rusty needle in the skin.
Shattered, broken bones. No limbs, amputee. 
Bringing back death! Preaching to the choir.
No need for the razor. No need for this rope.
Suicide was so five minutes ago....

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Soft brown eyes,
Silky black fur,
Large white bandage
Fear in her

Strange cold place
Cries of pain.
Confusion deep
Needle in vein.

Strong new scents
New people roam.
Warm soft towels
It’s not home.

Brain on alert
Nose sniffs hand.
Help is here
Can she stand?

Slow first walk
How will she cope.
Finding her balance
There is hope.

She stands unsteady
Improves by degree.
She will survive
The latest amputee....

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A leached amputee
living with stumps of flawless
dying.

Round and round, blindfolded
moving in circle, drawn by rhyming
bells.

Perhaps you need to suffer
with the drunken race of
snipers.

I am in the silent valley of
barefoot secrets where moon waits to
die.

The poppies will buy the bullets,
a gift to unending kiss of
grief.

Tell every vulture on the tree,
there is endless arrival of 
feasts.



SATISH VERMA...

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My sentiments, your entirety
my bad hair day, your inquirin' me
why it is so and I just 
would rather respond with  same blushed
integrity I just saw in the double
amputee has uncontrolled diabetes.

System says non-compliant
code for hasn't finances
to deal, so will however
is possible.

Is a beautiful world ifya scratch
'neath the surface.

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kinda rhymes, so i picked that, it may just as well be free verse, too...

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There's a bluebird in a tree
  A new cable service fee
Rioters on a looting spree
  What's it got to do with me

Protesters now all take a knee
  There's a viral strain of killer bee
Coral reefs are dying in the sea
  What's it got to do with me

In Congress, partisans can't agree
  Teachers won't give students 'E's'
Anyone can get a degree
  What's it got to do with me

Well, if from this world you flee
   Your heart will be an amputee...

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