Best Disabled Poems

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 fine”
And you don't know what to do
Just because I am disabled
Don't assume my brain is too

Whenever you get stressed
You can...

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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 dripping trees.

Where the Bluejay sang his evening hymn
In the light red blowing of the weary breeze
So he waited hours till...

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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 my limitations

Hear me out you people with limited understanding
Hear me out you people who seek better understanding
I’m calling you so...

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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 burn

Deep within this country's heart
These valiant men became a part
Of what secured this nation's might
That we may rest at ease...

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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 can soar through the sky,
And I can slay dragons,
With just a blink of an eye,
I can overcome barriers,
Fight against impossible...

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Injured from jumping on bandwagons, he can no longer march to a different beat

            Oct. 9, 2016 For Silent One's Funny One-Liner Contest...

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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 sentences an intricate mess of
words that won't come the way he wants them to
And Tourette is not HIS name, but...

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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 the milk may contain milk, so it said...

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A soldier's mistake
crippled, one body, one soul
forever, scarred so...

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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 dangers
And dangers that are there

I may not know the language
And cannot learn to write
And every time I take a step
It’s...

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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 I ‘d read a poem from this site 
and then…..my heart was sore!

I began to weep, someone….a poetess
There has a...

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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 this teenage boy,
Build me up this way
No bigger than a toy?

No bigger than his dog
In fact, we saw eye to...

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 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 hadn't yet started walking.

When I walked - my leg turned in,
Mom knew something was wrong right then.

"Mommy It Hurts" I...

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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 to a great degree
A much disgruntled employee
Of a brain as quick 
as a lightning stick
But useless just below the knee.

A...

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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 energy
knowing that she may be
the only outsider
they've seen or heard all week

she chooses her words with caution
none flow slipshod off...

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