Long Poems About Disability
#disability
oskar
Poem Published
15th Jun 2023 8:52am
15th Jun 2023 8:52am
the drunk
The drunk
A thick plastic curtain of the type used in warehouses he could not see through
to other than shadowy figures moving around, he knew he saw a past that
no longer belonged to him.
He sat on the edge of his unmade bed, drinking warm beer, when a sharp knock
on the door of his flat
it was the landlord looking at him with contempt, saying he must pay the rent tomorrow or else!
Despair sizzled through his body needed a strong drink one mixed vodka and cold coffee,
while asking himself how it had come to this losing his job because he had...
A thick plastic curtain of the type used in warehouses he could not see through
to other than shadowy figures moving around, he knew he saw a past that
no longer belonged to him.
He sat on the edge of his unmade bed, drinking warm beer, when a sharp knock
on the door of his flat
it was the landlord looking at him with contempt, saying he must pay the rent tomorrow or else!
Despair sizzled through his body needed a strong drink one mixed vodka and cold coffee,
while asking himself how it had come to this losing his job because he had...
#anxiety
#addiction
#apathy
#diabetes
#disability
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Countrygirl96
Poem Published
13th Feb 2023 11:41pm
13th Feb 2023 11:41pm
Suicidal Confession
#depression
#dark
#hurt #disability
#hurt #disability
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Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
14th Sep 2022 8:28pm
14th Sep 2022 8:28pm
Being AWOL
It's been an interesting couple of weeks.
I've had a bad patch with MH since some time in August. I decided to wait it out for a while to see if the (regular, permanent) medication did its thing, because it's quite an amazing phenomenon to witness when that happens. Things are now going in the right direction. Although I usually rush back to work as soon as I'm allowed to, this term I've chosen to benefit from one school's music lessons policy, and the other school's laidback approach, in order to delay my return for a while. I'm working very part-time this week and will be...
I've had a bad patch with MH since some time in August. I decided to wait it out for a while to see if the (regular, permanent) medication did its thing, because it's quite an amazing phenomenon to witness when that happens. Things are now going in the right direction. Although I usually rush back to work as soon as I'm allowed to, this term I've chosen to benefit from one school's music lessons policy, and the other school's laidback approach, in order to delay my return for a while. I'm working very part-time this week and will be...
#LifeStruggles
#illness
#MentalHealth
#hurt
#disability
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BlueBeastGirl
Beasty
Beasty
Poem Published
14th Aug 2022 9:06am
14th Aug 2022 9:06am
The chain of pills
I dont want to be on drugs forever
I know my wants don't matter anymore
My blood would kill me the moment I stop
My mind would spiral down to the darkest depths
So I swallow the pills... Of various unlovely colors
Colors of off dark greens, pale browns and sickly egg shell white
They stick to my tongue and cause my face to scrunch up in disgust
I know they make them nasty on purpose
It's so you don't enjoy taking them
But I'll be taking this drug the rest of my life
And who the fuck would take blood thinners for fun
Couldn't...
I know my wants don't matter anymore
My blood would kill me the moment I stop
My mind would spiral down to the darkest depths
So I swallow the pills... Of various unlovely colors
Colors of off dark greens, pale browns and sickly egg shell white
They stick to my tongue and cause my face to scrunch up in disgust
I know they make them nasty on purpose
It's so you don't enjoy taking them
But I'll be taking this drug the rest of my life
And who the fuck would take blood thinners for fun
Couldn't...
#illness
#PTSD
#despair
#disability
#weakness
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Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
7th Apr 2022 3:20pm
7th Apr 2022 3:20pm
New Shoes
I never had much interest
in clothes or shoes,
though I did have a passing interest
in earrings and hair accessories.
Nowadays, I think I would like
to shop for a pair of shoes.
It's been many years since I did,
for shoes have become a symbol
of what I can no longer have.
Booted and braced and insole-d,
I'm grateful that I can walk
short distances on flat terrain.
Foiled by lack of cashflow,
footwear rarely requires much thought—
the same pair of Clark's size 5½ ankle boots
have adorned my feet...
in clothes or shoes,
though I did have a passing interest
in earrings and hair accessories.
Nowadays, I think I would like
to shop for a pair of shoes.
It's been many years since I did,
for shoes have become a symbol
of what I can no longer have.
Booted and braced and insole-d,
I'm grateful that I can walk
short distances on flat terrain.
Foiled by lack of cashflow,
footwear rarely requires much thought—
the same pair of Clark's size 5½ ankle boots
have adorned my feet...
#disability
#NaPoWriMo2022
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OyateInyanNajin
Poem Published
26th Jan 2022 4:11am
26th Jan 2022 4:11am
I LIVE
how tired
or brave
this life
this wave
in turbulence
or happiness
drowned or saved
perpetually
either
up or down
stuck
in whats
now become
this decades long
inner hauntings
silent
limbo
of such complex
existential uncertainties
forced forth
by both
circumstance
and fate
it seems
to long wander
what little
now remains
of this
increasingly
toxic
american wasteland...
or brave
this life
this wave
in turbulence
or happiness
drowned or saved
perpetually
either
up or down
stuck
in whats
now become
this decades long
inner hauntings
silent
limbo
of such complex
existential uncertainties
forced forth
by both
circumstance
and fate
it seems
to long wander
what little
now remains
of this
increasingly
toxic
american wasteland...
#illness
#MentalHealth
#PTSD #disability
#PTSD #disability
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HeidiC
Hyde
Hyde
Poem Published
4th Oct 2021 9:09pm
4th Oct 2021 9:09pm
Myriad of scars
Long ago, before she was ever hunted by the beast,
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The harsh truth, lesions, white, many, & irreparable.
Multiple sclerosis. Many losses, her heart was shattered in sorrow.
Her mind, now pregnant, birthed new sorrow.
She felt herself collapsing beneath the weight of the beast.
She no longer knew who she was. She was broken, irreparable.
Drowning in a tumultuous salty sea,...
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The harsh truth, lesions, white, many, & irreparable.
Multiple sclerosis. Many losses, her heart was shattered in sorrow.
Her mind, now pregnant, birthed new sorrow.
She felt herself collapsing beneath the weight of the beast.
She no longer knew who she was. She was broken, irreparable.
Drowning in a tumultuous salty sea,...
#strength
#illness
#MentalHealth
#disability
#determination
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1 Comment
CasketSharpe
Poem Published
28th Sep 2021 6:34pm
28th Sep 2021 6:34pm
Sexual Determination
#sex
#disability
#determination
572 reads
3 Comments
BlueBeastGirl
Beasty
Beasty
Poem Published
10th Aug 2021 9:24pm
10th Aug 2021 9:24pm
A Sick Girls Anger Party
There are times when I hide in my room
Angry and bitter I sit here and write
Wanting and wishing that I was different
That being sick didn't bring out the worst in me
I close my eyes and push my fingers against my bruised
Wishing for pain to settle the need for punishment
I never want to be touched when I feel like this
But what I wouldn't give to have a long hug
Where Im the one leaning and not being leaned on
I am the strong one, I am the eldest, the rescuer
But when I just want to be cared for
To be held close and loved on ...
Angry and bitter I sit here and write
Wanting and wishing that I was different
That being sick didn't bring out the worst in me
I close my eyes and push my fingers against my bruised
Wishing for pain to settle the need for punishment
I never want to be touched when I feel like this
But what I wouldn't give to have a long hug
Where Im the one leaning and not being leaned on
I am the strong one, I am the eldest, the rescuer
But when I just want to be cared for
To be held close and loved on ...
#anger
#illness
#MentalHealth
#FeelingTrapped
#disability
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3 Comments
BlueBeastGirl
Beasty
Beasty
Poem Published
7th Aug 2021 3:50am
7th Aug 2021 3:50am
Autism isn't a dirty word
Sometimes I feel as if I'm not playing the same game
There's rules no ones explained to me
If you put me in a situation where I can't escape
I bite my nails, shake my head, avoid your eyes
I can't escape your eyes, seeing everything
You think I'm stupid, It's written all over your face
I'm bad with tone but I've heard yours before
Out of the mouths of the adults in my life their
Fists against the walls by my face screaming at me why can't I be normal
I have forgotten that in this world I'm wrong
Entire organizations color the way my brain is...
There's rules no ones explained to me
If you put me in a situation where I can't escape
I bite my nails, shake my head, avoid your eyes
I can't escape your eyes, seeing everything
You think I'm stupid, It's written all over your face
I'm bad with tone but I've heard yours before
Out of the mouths of the adults in my life their
Fists against the walls by my face screaming at me why can't I be normal
I have forgotten that in this world I'm wrong
Entire organizations color the way my brain is...
#rejection
#heartbroken
#disability
#Autism
#vulnerability
723 reads
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dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
18th Feb 2021 1:37pm
18th Feb 2021 1:37pm
A Rant For AnyOne, Or Non-At-All
relations, relating
(relation'ships....be passing in the proverbial night),
relate the great of gone.
~~No po'em survives such an onslaught ~~
what leg
acy recalled, (had in mind
at the times when all
l o v e
seemed so g'damned
different.
Second chances non-extant now'a'days any'ways.
Roll over, buddy.
It's...
(relation'ships....be passing in the proverbial night),
relate the great of gone.
~~No po'em survives such an onslaught ~~
what leg
acy recalled, (had in mind
at the times when all
l o v e
seemed so g'damned
different.
Second chances non-extant now'a'days any'ways.
Roll over, buddy.
It's...
#regret
#memories
#disappointment
#nostalgia
#disability
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OyateInyanNajin
Poem Published
24th Jan 2021 11:53pm
24th Jan 2021 11:53pm
RECURRENT NOXIOUS FLOWERS OF DESPAIR (9-1-1996, Galveston Island, Texas)
an atomic implosion
abruptly
bloomed forth
in the dark
pit
of all my
too long suppressed
subconscious
collective despair
effectively turning me
inside out
completely abandoned
alone and lost
in the suddenly
realized
no longer hidden
inner horrors
of my own
accumulatively inverted
now exposed
man made
now seemingly manifest
synaptically challenged
pseudo insanity ...
abruptly
bloomed forth
in the dark
pit
of all my
too long suppressed
subconscious
collective despair
effectively turning me
inside out
completely abandoned
alone and lost
in the suddenly
realized
no longer hidden
inner horrors
of my own
accumulatively inverted
now exposed
man made
now seemingly manifest
synaptically challenged
pseudo insanity ...
#anxiety
#insomnia
#illness
#MentalHealth
#disability
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