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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PHYSICAL DISABILITIES Matches Found: 125 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 9:00 A.M. AT BROADWAY AND WALNUT ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: Hand in hand they start across Subject(s): Physical Disabilities A LITTLE LAME BOY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On 'scursion-days - an' shows - an' Last Line: They ain't no bad folks anywheres! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Carnivals; Country Life; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples AFTER BEING PARALYZED FROM THE NECK DOWN, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time in twenty years Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Physical Disabilities ANNA ANDERSON, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Schizophrenic moon, %half-lit and fat with gravity Last Line: I dance her around the room Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities AT THE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, by ROBERT PAWLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Here %is gentle speech Subject(s): Physical Disabilities BECAUSE SHE HAD NO CHILDREN, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Not a month after the tumors %started hatching in her chest Last Line: To be digested, her blood washing %through another heart Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities BEEHIVE, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: I don't know how bees %remember the airy path Last Line: They are going, or who the pilot is Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities BLACK LIGHTNING, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blind girl Last Line: Lightning. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples BLEEDER, by HOLLIS SUMMERS Poem Source First Line: The bld. In my body weighs Subject(s): Physical Disabilities BLOCK PARTY AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: On my second lap around the buffet, %it's hard to deny the appeal Last Line: Delivering the clear, devastating headline- %anonymous source claims: we are all still here Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities BULIMIA, by JEAN STEWART Poem Source First Line: We hug the bowl Last Line: We bow our heads %we hug the bowl Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders; Physical Disabilities CHARWOMAN, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: Clapping the door to, in the little light Last Line: And poise on the shaftway for my own descent Variant Title(s): Charwoman (lower Manhattan - 6:00 P.m.) Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Physical Disabilities CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, as she writes at her desk, her mind Last Line: As her hands begin to flutter %like the severed wings of angels Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities CRIPPLE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when I saw a cripple Last Line: The clear silent processional of stars. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind! Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples CRIPPLED FOR LIFE, by JOHN F. NICHOLLS Poem Source Subject(s): Physical Disabilities CROWS, FROZEN IN THE SNOW, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Follow 61 south, past selinsgrove Last Line: There is another storm to get things moving Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities DIALYSIS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: When my stomach floods %like a basement, and breath Last Line: Something picasso would paint, %water pushed through a wave Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come? Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War EDWARD AT MAGGIE'S SALOON, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: He's got little soldiers in the eyes Last Line: Full of darkness, in which %his adam's apple leaps Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples EYE (PART II), by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in st. Thomas, when I tried Subject(s): Physical Disabilities FOIBLES: 3. THE GAME, by HAROLD BOND Poem Source First Line: You are my friends. You do things Subject(s): Physical Disabilities FOR THE GOOD COUNSEL NUN, WHO LEFT HER BRAIN TO SCIENCE, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: When the alzheimer's came to call, %when it entered her Last Line: Doing as the nun was trained; turning away %from the reflection in the glass Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities FOR THE LAME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happen you will rise Last Line: Happen you will wonder at the way %it seemed so marvelous to move Subject(s): Physical Disabilities FREAKS AT SPURGIN ROAD FIELD, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dim boy claps because the others clap Subject(s): Physical Disabilities FREEDOM, NEVADA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: A stitch of mountains trims the horizon Last Line: Their wings flag this town. One, crime. One, drought Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities GAME JOE SILVER PLAYS ALONE IN THE DARK, by JEANNE E. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Joe silver forgotten, but born Last Line: Except a glow-in-the-dark sky %with smoke that is ohio Subject(s): Physical Disabilities GIFT, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: This is what %I will call you: extra Last Line: Everything %that drains %from you %is gold Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities HANDICAPPED, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The missing legs %of the amputee Last Line: Falls in a fit, %he is ascending %to the heaven of earth Subject(s): Physical Disabilities HANDICAPPED CHILDREN SWIMMING, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: A measure of freedom. Mike, floating Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Sports; Swimming HEART TRANSPLANTS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, I'm thinking of the men Last Line: A pushing out and falling away, %I love you. I am dead Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities HIGH DIVE, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Something in the sun-blurred %paper-faces below Last Line: It is terrible, %it is not so bad Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities HIP BONES, by KATE YOUTHER Poem Source First Line: I dry dishes whenever my father washes. Today he stops to look at Last Line: One leg at a time - just like the next man Subject(s): Children; Hips; Physical Disabilities; Virginity HOW STUMP STOOD IN THE WATER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ice had many sons. 'find me my food!' he shouted Last Line: On his own feet, holding his life in his hands Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples HOW STUMP STOOD IN THE WATER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ice had many sons. 'find me my food!' he shouted Last Line: On his own feet, holding his life in his hands Subject(s): Physical Disabilities HUNCHBACK GIRL: SHE THINKS OF HEAVEN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, it is surely a blue place Last Line: Proper myself, princess of properness. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples HUNCHBACK IN THE PARK, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Had followed the hunchback %to his kennel in the dark Subject(s): Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Wanderers And Wandering IT HAPPENS LIKE THIS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: One morning, you wake early %to a fluttering in your chest Last Line: How you are beginning to love this world Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities LACE MAKER, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Needle, needle open up Subject(s): Physical Disabilities LANGUAGE OF DREAMS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Gibberish or the curved truth of stones? Last Line: Into the sooting voice of stars, stars, stars Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities LAPS, by JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY Poem Source First Line: In this marriage of water and air %always she is the beginner Last Line: By lap their hands part the water Subject(s): Physical Disabilities LATE ELEGY FOR A BASEBALL PLAYER, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: He was all back Subject(s): Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: ILLNOIS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: There's no sound chicago %hasn't thought of: it has planes Last Line: And a city the past %would build between us Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: INDIANA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Pocket in the midwestern pants. Lake Last Line: Indiana, we love you. Now go away Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: IOWA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Missouri's headstone. %weather's back room Last Line: All of this is sealed in her. %dusk presses into her face, vermilion Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: MINNESOTA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Its little chimney punching %into canada-sky, this house Last Line: A hand's length above our reach Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: OHIO, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In cleveland, they measure time %by how long it takes wind to blow Last Line: To collect our rented boat Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MAP OF SIX STATES: PENNSYLVANIA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Four-sided sea, where wide %sky and clouds mean Last Line: Heavy knife signaling on the cutting board %now now now now Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 9. CHANT FOR A STUMPED TOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He may be lame Last Line: He's dear to me Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped;handicaps;physically Challenged;cripples MISS DOVIE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: She was born a cripple Last Line: I bet they're worth more than false teeth Subject(s): Physical Disabilities MOON WITH BELLS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Atheist moon, she rings bells %for nobody. Twelve strict notes Last Line: Full of self-importance and terribly busy Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MOUTH TO MOUTH, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Like trying to blow a feather %from the bottom of a hat Last Line: So they both hovered above the rim %to the deep-hatted other world Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MUHAMMAD ALI, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In my gloves there is a place %for two small gods to live Last Line: My right hand seeks forgiveness %for my left hand's rage Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor & Laborers; Physical Disabilities; Infants; Work; Workers; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will he hear the bell at school Last Line: Whether he hears my song or not Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor And Laborers; Physical Disabilities MY GRANDMOTHER'S FALSE TEETH, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: When she pulled them from her mouth Last Line: There was nothing to be afraid of Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MY MOTHER AT SECRETARIAL SCHOOL, 1967, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Now is the time for all young mothers %to jump to the aid of their children Last Line: Slide of a u or j, and the I, %with its own address, %orphaned and unafraid Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities MY NAME IS QUINN MARGARET, by JEANNE E. CLARK Poem Source First Line: My sister wore a peignoir Last Line: As in the verb to be %on fire Subject(s): Physical Disabilities NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: August stretches into fall. Clouds spread Last Line: And you, in a crude garment of skin, are not Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NEWS ITEM: MAN RECEIVES FIRST HAND TRANSPLANT, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Even before surgery, the patient decided Last Line: The patient into the hallway, leaving the o.R. %dark and empty as a cave Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NON-VERBAL AUTISTIC MAN, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Arrows in the carpet mark where his feet go Last Line: Arrows in the carpet mark what his feet know %from the kitchen to the bedroom window Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NOTE TO JOHN FROM A GROVE NEAR SALISBURY, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: August brings a fever of moths Last Line: Drawing in and turning loose the air Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities NOVEMBER HUNTERS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Winter fields are blank, cleared of all humanity Last Line: Let go, then fill a chest with feathers Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities ODE TO BOB FLANAGAN, by KAREN ALKALAY-GUT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I step into bob flanagan's room Last Line: Of a pin-filled, flame-teased ejaculating penis Subject(s): Physical Disabilities OG MANDINO, by GEORGE BOND Poem Full Text First Line: Today, upon a bus Last Line: I’m blessed, indeed! The world is mine! Subject(s): Blessings; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples OH, IMMOBILITY, DEATH'S VAST ASSOCIATE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Parade. And the dream? To believe yourself dancing Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Physical Disabilities ONE-LEGGED MAN, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In the bath tub he feels it, or its weight Last Line: Gangrene without knowing what it meant Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities PIZARRO TEACHES THE MENTALLY RETARDED TO SWIM, by LEE BASSETT Poem Source First Line: And when it's over, go with the child Subject(s): Physical Disabilities PLAYING YORICK, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Dying? That's a matter of wardrobe Last Line: As a foreshadowing, a sample %of what's to come, an hors d'oeuvre Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities QUADRIPLEGIC: THE BATH, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You'll feel like %new,' I said, keeping things Last Line: And began to bathe him Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Nurses; Physical Disabilities READING THE GINGERBREAD MAN WITH MY DAUGHTER, by BROOKE HORVATH Poem Source First Line: Read, read, as fast as you can %is what I want to say but don't Last Line: In a gesture of greeting %and farewell Subject(s): Physical Disabilities RECOVERY SONG, by BARRY WALLENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I've put the deathbed frown behind me Subject(s): Physical Disabilities RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more' Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness ROCKY, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Rocky and mickey argue with a door between them Last Line: Bag hearts keep boxing in their little rings Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities ROMANIAN POET, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Because she was not born into english, and because Last Line: Calling the night into her small room Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities SAINT FLANNERY, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: At lourdes everybody drank from the cup Subject(s): Physical Disabilities SEATED NUDE, by RICHARD RONAN Poem Source First Line: She hiked; knew she had to Last Line: While whispering yes yes %oh lover yes Subject(s): Physical Disabilities SELF JUSTIFICATION, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me a poet! My daughter with maimed limb Last Line: By which all - eloquence - gets justified Subject(s): Physical Disabilities SELF-PORTRAIT WITH 1911 NY YANKEES CAP, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: The subtlest approach would be to ignore Last Line: I was wearing gives me a new idea %which, as I turn to note it, I forget. Subject(s): Baseball; Physical Disabilities; Sports SENTRY OF PORTOFERRAIO, by DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Blame this island town for the broken boy Subject(s): Physical Disabilities SILENCES, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Christmas eve, and the advice columns Subject(s): Physical Disabilities SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an ancient england in the new Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SIX WEEKS BEFORE YOU DIED, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In new mexico, %we walk into a canyon of horses Last Line: In the sand, altering the shape of the dust %in the decaying air Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities STROKE, by CHRISTOPHER FAHY Poem Source First Line: Attacks while he's on the toilet Subject(s): Physical Disabilities STUMPFOOT ON 42ND STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A negro sprouts from the pavement like an asparagus Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples STUMPFOOT ON 42ND STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A negro sprouts from the pavement like an asparagus Subject(s): Physical Disabilities SUBTERFUGE, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember my father, slight Last Line: Will lose the terrible favor that life hase done him %as she toils at tomorrow, tensed at her makesh Subject(s): Physical Disabilities SWEATER, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In november, when the family of tumors %decided it would stay in the chest Last Line: Catheter wormed through the collar, %and drained the river of his voice Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities SWEET WILLIAMS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: All day they purple. %all day the sweetness Last Line: The world silently burning, %what we've come to live for? Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities SWITCH-HITTERS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many home runs / mickey mantle hit Last Line: Up and over the fence, a home run Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SWITCH-HITTERS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many home runs %mickey mantle hit Last Line: And up over the fence, a home run Subject(s): Physical Disabilities THE ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me." Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CRIPPLED BEGGAR SPEAKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, peter was shaggy, his garments were coarse Last Line: That he hadn't a penny that day! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Kindness; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CRIPPLED GIRL, THE ROSE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was as if a flower bloomed as if Subject(s): Roses; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE FREAKS AT SPURGIN ROAD FIELD, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dim boy claps because the others clap Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thist a little crippled boy, an' never goin' to grow Last Line: "they's nary angel 'bout the place with ""curv'ture of the spine""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LAME CHILD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: He passed along our village street Last Line: Along his crippled years! Subject(s): Children; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LEGLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind goes back to fumin wood, and how we stuck it out Last Line: Lo! How it's silver-lined. Subject(s): Legs; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE LITTLE CRIPPLE'S COMPLAINT, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a helpless cripple child Last Line: Leaning in my easy-chair. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been thirteen or so, her nascent breasts Subject(s): Teenagers; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SIGHTLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night a crash Last Line: And our night is lost in the greater night. Subject(s): Blindness; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SORROWS OF THE BLIND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the sorrows of the poor blind Last Line: And remember us at the judgment day. Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THREE DOCTORS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Each morning they surround my chart Last Line: They stepped cautiously to the hall Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities TO ONE DEAF, by MARY LUCINA Poem Source First Line: Already you are Subject(s): Physical Disabilities TO THE DEFORMED X.R., by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As scriveners sometime delight to see Last Line: Even hated by thy nurse deformity. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE VOICE OF ONE BLIND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind, ah! Blind - it has come upon me now Last Line: I am come nearer now. Subject(s): Blindness; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples TWO COMAS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In a small room, just beyond the sleep-house Last Line: They sleep with the dark juice %of never waking on their tongues Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities UPON A VERY DEFORMED GENTLEWOMAN, BUT OF A VOICE INCOMPARABLY SWEET, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanc'd sweet lesbia's voice to hear Last Line: Whilst she hath tongue, or I have eyes. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Voices; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples VETERAN'S HOSPITAL, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: Bringing 'only what is needed - essential Last Line: Smile by the clubbed plants on the portico. %'they shall overcome.' Subject(s): Physical Disabilities VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair. Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples VISIT TO THE INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND, by FELIX POLLAK Poem Source First Line: Swimming against the coarse grain Subject(s): Physical Disabilities VISITOR, by GIBBONS RUARK Poem Source First Line: Holding the arm of his helper, the blind Last Line: And a single lucid drop of water starts my dream Subject(s): Physical Disabilities WAL-MART SESTINA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Saturday mornings, they drive to wal-mart, usually Last Line: A radio, or a filing cabinet where later she will alphabetize %his poems Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WALKING FIELDS AT NIGHT SOUTH OF HAMPTON, IOWA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: The last of the year's wheat is drought-bruised and bolted Last Line: I say, if there never were stars I would %not miss them Subject(s): Bodies; Fields; Iowa; Physical Disabilities; Walking WALTER MONDALE AT MCDONALD'S, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: He seems to hover above the strict geometry of tiles Last Line: The styrofoam lid, the box was empty Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT HANDS?, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: That they are there, dangling Last Line: Them home, and the mind %thanks them with feeling Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WHAT I LEFT OUT, by KAREN THEMSTRUP Poem Source First Line: I left out the snails Last Line: No faces, no bodies to teach %them to speak, no words Subject(s): Physical Disabilities WHAT THE PATIENT WANTS TO KNOW, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why, when I was five, in 1963 -- june Last Line: I try. But why is all this happening to me? Subject(s): Physical Disabilities WHEELCHAIR OR MARKO TAKES LIFE LYING DOWN, by SUSAN E. FERNBACH Poem Source First Line: It was a carrot, and a stick. If he could drive it Last Line: He sees it draped with her clothes Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Wheelchairs WINTER FARM, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: In the first half-sleep past the equinox Last Line: Or the confession a river makes across stones Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities WRESTLING WITH ANGELS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night, hip out of joint Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Physical Disabilities ZINNIAS, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: Every spring their orange %arrows appear not far Last Line: North, and these flowers will resume %giving their fire away Subject(s): Bodies; Physical Disabilities |
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