Hooray for Captain Spaulding
...Hooray for Captain Spaulding...
though he played only a cameo role
helping me secure corrective eyewear I sport
mucho gratitude to all parties involved
including the missus,
cuz she needed to ...
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Categories:
visually impaired, 2nd grade, adventure, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Visually Impaired Tennis
...Become a Tennis VIP,
A Visually Impaired Player - just like me,
No matter how your sight loss occurred,
Your vision black, incomplete, or blurred,
With adapted rules and cool soundball,
It’s a g...
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Categories:
visually impaired, courage, dedication, discrimination, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Voices
...VOICES”
There are voices crying out loud screaming for help in the wilderness
In need of spiritual healing Im uncertain if anyone else even notice or are they hearing them
They are lost and bro...
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Categories:
visually impaired, hope, poetry, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
My Prism
...Visually impaired - I view the mirrors
The effect - I danced in life
Colors - Hues impressed my very soul
I became the artist -I painted
Love of life's beauty - realism indeed
Even the flower t...
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Categories:
visually impaired, art, color,
Form: Rhyme
- Dot To Dot -
...
When she takes her life into her own hands
with fingers that read braille
from dot to dot
Refuse to live in the void of darkness
between A-Y
No boat was built
to stan...
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Categories:
visually impaired, blessing, community, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
I Am
...Blood, , urine, in order; perfume and sweat, pleasure combined
Visually impaired by smog and darkness
I can sense bodies; I can smell life and excess
The taste is overpowering and I gav
I'm quiet...
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Categories:
visually impaired, 2nd grade, life,
Form: Free verse
Future Smartphone Technology
...INVENTIONS
ARE THE MATERIALIZATION
OF THE IMAGINATION.
IMAGINE...
IF YOU WILL...
A SMARTPHONE
THE SIZE
OF A GRAIN OF RICE.
IMPLANTED
IN YOUR HEAD.
WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND ...
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Categories:
visually impaired, future, imagery, imagination, technology,
Form: Free verse
Crimsons Are Not For Me
...A poem - Crimsons are not for me
Crimsons are not for me
Celluloid screen flashed for reference
Pinks would be fine’-
bargained my voice so meek
Crimsons are not for me
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Categories:
visually impaired, bereavement, change, grief, husband,
Form: Free verse
Do You Hear What I Hear
...Birthdate? My family tells me
it was 1900 or so.
I don’t remember being born;
I know when I started to grow.
My first real friend was named Reggie
We first met when I was just six.
It was Ch...
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Categories:
visually impaired, 11th grade, birthday, song,
Form: Quatrain
Unnatural Selection
...Life started out pretty well, of that I won’t complain,
Somehow then I lost it, god knows I can’t explain.
Melancholy has taking over, Good times have gone awry
Life is a haze and passing, like t...
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Categories:
visually impaired, anxiety, death, depression, how
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Camoflaunt
...I glanced in the mirror
and saw an awful sight
it haunted me each day
and troubled me at night
And so I tried to blend in
uncomfortable with fear
so unhappy with myself
that I'd wish to disa...
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Categories:
visually impaired, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Melissa Reid
...Melissa always dreamed of being a beach lifeguard,
But when it got to the age when she asked about it,
She was told she could not because of her eye sight,
Since she is visually impaired and so...
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Categories:
visually impaired, sports, strength,
Form: Blank verse
Alison Patrick
...Alison completed the triathlon in Rio,
With Hazel Smith, her guide athlete,
‘Cos she’s visually impaired, not solo,
And so needs Hazel to see the beat.
She comes from Dunfermline, Scotland...
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Categories:
visually impaired, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain
Hannah Russell
...It was Hannah’s young dream to win golds,
At Paralympics because she was born blind,
So she races in the visually impaired class,
S12 along with many other blind swimmers.
Both Hannah’s par...
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Categories:
visually impaired, sports, strength, water,
Form: Blank verse
Abby Kane
...Abby comes from Largs in Scotland,
And is visually impaired by Stargardt,
The progressive vision disease panned,
By some of the other Paralympians.
Born on the 4th day of August 2003,
She’...
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Categories:
visually impaired, sports, strength,
Form: Verse
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