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Best Disabled Poems

Below are the all-time best Disabled poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of disabled poems written by PoetrySoup members


I'M Disabled, Not Stupid
Some people can be so ignorant
I know they're not to blame
They see me in my wheelchair
And say “Aw, isn't it a shame”?

I say “Hello, I’m...

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Categories: disabled, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
The Disabled Boy
His knees trembled in the slippery cold
Beside the benches dressed with leaves
Mother was coming, yes so he's been told
To wait in an hour by the...

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Categories: disabled, fantasy, fear, nature, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Disabled
My disability is not my weakness
My mind tells me that I am capable
My heart agrees to the sayings of my mind
Yes I am able despite...

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Categories: disabled, uplifting, me, people, me,
Form: ABC

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Disabled Vet
THE DISABLED VET


Many wars have come and gone
These wars took men away from home
Some of them did not return
But the memory of them will always...

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Categories: disabled, freedom, integrity, loss, men,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Is Disabled
Who is disabled?
Is it me, or is it you?
Should disability be based
On an anatomical stock-take,
Or based on what you can do?

For I can climb mountains,
I...

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Categories: disabled, deep, discrimination, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Disabled Drum Major
Injured from jumping on bandwagons, he can no longer march to a different beat

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Categories: disabled, funny,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Disabled
He rides his wheelchair like a racing car
The rainbow colours blending into one
He grins his infectious grin, his wide mouth 
welcoming and warm

He stutters, his...

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Categories: disabled, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disabled Labels
When buying milk and bread I almost dropped dead
Because when I looked at the labels they read
The bread may contain wheat
And topping that feat
Was that...

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Categories: disabled, food, funny,
Form: Limerick
One Error, Two Disabled
A soldier's mistake
crippled, one body, one soul
forever, scarred so...

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Categories: disabled, confusion, depression, history, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Disabled But Able
Imprisoned in a body
That I cannot control
Unable to communicate
Incomplete, but I am whole

Relying on my caretakers
To supply me with the care
I can’t look out for...

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Categories: disabled, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Message From a Disabled Vet

Was sitting in my wheelchair in my den,
My son, playing with trucks on the floor.
The smell of pot roast wafting from the 
kitchen door.
I thought...

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Categories: disabled, america, inspirational, loss,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Littlest Snowman
He scooped and he packed
He rolled me good and round,
When all was done, I stood there
Only three feet off the ground

I had wondered why...
Why did...

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Categories: disabled, boy, brother, children, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Growing Up
 Growing Up 
by Robert Austin Allison

When I was just 4 years of age,
I was stuck in the crawling stage.

I had already started talking,
But I...

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Categories: disabled, bullying, childhood, death, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
Misshape
Cripple

Nature made me incomplete
She failed to give me two good feet
The left one’s fine,
It’s well in line 
But the other is rather bittersweet

It twists around...

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Categories: disabled, bullying, motivation, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
Strangely Satisfied
retired beautician
arms, elbow deep in shampoo
volunteers daily at the local elder care

residents line up
three doorways deep
down the hall
waiting their turn
at free furbish

she donates time and...

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Categories: disabled, 11th grade, blessing, hair,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry