Handicap

Tribute to successful persons with disability

Life is neither poem nor prose
Life  is neither poppy nor rose

It may be smooth or harsh
Like pleasant breeze or burning brush

Everyone has to face the reality
With passion,commitment and ability

Perfect person may not win the prize
While a handicap may give surprise

Dream,devotion and drive for goal
May make one honored and successful

I greet challenged persons from my heart
You have conquered through your art

Your success is a lesson for us all
You will always shine and never fall

Reviews

[DIVYA]

They should all the more be celebrated for making it in such a harsh, difficult world. Those who were lucky enough to make it and those who were not...they all deserve our love, respect and regard. Great and noble thoughts from you Zainul sir. My compliments.

[zainul]

Dear Divya,
Thanks for the thoughtful contribution.
Yes,they all deserve our love, respect and regard.
I am very glad that you stopped by to grace this piece.:)

[DIVYA]

My pleasure sir. You are welcome. :)

[zainul]

:)

[Maggie]

I read this like the Proverbs of old. Seems like holy writing, nearly, rhymes to tell children in order to raise them well, and to teach them how to grow well. Good thinking on this poem

[zainul]

Thanks for the great inspiration.
I feel very honored and blessed.
Thank you Megan for stopping by to grace this piece with your amazing review.

[ms. barrie]

zainul...Heart-felt, universal positive message of encouragement and perseverance, hope lightning the way. there are so many lines here that this is nothing short of being spectacular, that i cannot choose just one! this is definitely one of my favorites on here...thank you for sharing the beauty of your words with us all! 100-100...Pen on, Dear Poet! :)

[zainul]

Barrie,I am not only blessed by your wonderful words of compliments,I am also freed from the captive condition by your review.
I could not post any comment for the last one week.
Posting button did not work.
I was helpless.
I am free from the curse now.
Thank you very much.

[ms. barrie]

zainul, there is no need to thank me, for this is/was a pleasure to read! wow, of all the glitches i've encountered on this site, i have yet to come across that one. ah WC and their wonderful glitches, we just gotta love them! Well, yay! At least the curse has been lifted. Keep shining on with that pen of yours!! :)

[zainul]

You are so sweet my friend.
You have long been talking about the glitches of WC.
I could not realize it until I experienced it myself.
Let's fly again like free birds,sweet friend.

[ms. barrie]

aw and you are a sweet friend as well. yes, i suppose some people encounter more glitches
on this site than others. i do know that when i use my notebook pc. i have to deal with
flashing blue diamonds on this site, then on other sites, so i am sticking to a shared desktop pc.
yes, it would be nice to write/fly again...thank you sweet friend :)

[Constance Payne]

A disability is only a disability if you allow it to keep you from your dreams.
A physical, emotional, or mental handicap is simply a challenge to be overcome.
Very nicely written.

[zainul]

Wonderfully expressed about all kinds of disabilities.You have correctly emphasized that a physical, emotional, or mental handicap is simply a challenge to be overcome
Thank you for the great contribution.

[Aisha Mnd]

Great poem! I have a fellow friend who has is extremely autistic. He wasn't expected to accomplish anything great in life, but he's now a programer. :)

[zainul]

Thank you Aisha for sharing.
He is our pride.
He had a dream to be a programmer.
So he tried hard to transform his dream to reality.
Let's congratulate him.
I am very glad you stopped by to grace this piece.:)

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Mmh, pretty pep talk, will definitely keep me going before the volleyball finals. Amazing work, I love it.

[zainul]

Thank you lovely poet for taking me to the volleyball finals.
Please rest assured that I will be around to applaud you.
Please have confidence that you can.
You are an empowered person with divine blessing.:)

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Thank you. zainul. Am definitely looking forward to reading your great dedication on poetry that awakens new avenues of creativity.

[zainul]

You are most welcome,dear friend.:)
We are working together as a team to explore creative avenues.
Thanks for stopping by.

[Goldfrog]

The disabled experience pains - physical and psychological - every second of their lives. Seemingly weak and unable to contribute much, according to the success standards of this "harsh, difficult world," their strength of character, as your poem clearly states, is often staggering.

Education seems to spend years cultivating the intellect, minutes instructing the character. Your poem is a fine tribute to the character of disabled people everywhere.

[zainul]

This is a great illuminating review.
The depth of your knowledge and experience has glorified my humble efforts to speak for the very important people who belong to us,surround us and live with us.It is impossible to overlook them,despise them,deny them.
Thank you Doug for stopping by to grace this piece.

[Antara Kundu]

That's a beautiful message Zainul! I loved these lines - 'Perfect person may not win the prize / While a handicap may give surprise'.

It is impossible that all men be born equal, either socio-economically or in terms of physical/mental capabilities - but we all deserve a fair chance in life. The aim of every healthy group should be to ensure that people do not get marginalized for 'faults' which are no fault of theirs.

[zainul]

Thank you Antara for your precious contribution.
I totally agree with view stated in your review.
There could not be any better explanation.
Your review is a great tip for those who really intend to help humanity.
Thank you, dear friend for stopping by to grace this piece.:)

[Sam]

I completely agree with this poem. I enjoyed this line: Your success is a lesson for us all. You will always sine and never fall." How many people really stop to see this?
They do deserve our love our respect our friendship and to matter. Because they all do. We don't have control over things that we are born with but some how and some way they managed to learn to live with it and not miss one step.
Thank you for sharing this. Beautiful!

[zainul]

Thank you Samantha for stopping by to grace this piece with your inspiring review.
This means a world to me.

[Katerina Felinova]

I very much enjoyed reading this poem and feel as though you really captured what life is. Everyone goes through something different whether its the 'pleasant breeze' or the 'burning brush'. Just because you've had a good life, does not make you successful or important or special. I feel like you made a good example in that when you said

Perfect person may not win the prize
While a handicap may give surprise

It is good to hear somebody respects those with challenges they can not help. And that through their disability, you learn a lesson. I believe the lesson for us all would be to cherish those things we do have in our lives.

Thank you for sharing. :)

--Katerina

[zainul]

Thank you Katerina for your analytical review.
It has interpreted my efforts very nicely.
read moreThank you Katerina for your analytical review.
It has interpreted my efforts very nicely.
I appreciate your generous compliments and wonderful contribution.:)

[Jane P.]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your poem! Very well written and the first two lines are exceptionally clever:
"Life is neither poem nor prose
Life is neither poppy nor rose"
(By the way, is there a reason for the double space between 'life' and 'is' in line two?)
A great way to open your poem, as it immediately establishes a whimsical tone and further captures the attention of the audience.

I know that grammar is often disregarded in poetry, but I felt this sentence disrupted the flow of your poem, "Like pleasant breeze or burning brush." All you need to do is add either 'a pleasant breeze' or 'the pleasant breeze' to be more structurally sound. Otherwise, I'm a super fan of alliteration, so really enjoying this stanza!

"passion,commitment" Here you just need a space after the comma (unless this is intentional, in which case, please ignore this comment)! There are other grammatical inconsistencies throughout your poem, and they're not a major issue, but it did obstruct your poem's otherwise clear pace. You have constructed a very well thought-out poem, and it was a pleasure to read your work!
Well done!

[zainul]

Thank you for your admiring review.
I appreciate your suggestions.
I will fix the grammatical issues soon.
I feel very honored that I have been blessed by a great review by an expert of English literature.

[Jane P.]

Haha, no problem at all! You write such lovely poetry :)
Do you read much poetry by the Romantics? I'm not sure why (maybe because it was so intricately clever), but your first couplet reminded me of Blake's work, mainly the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. He's also a very whimsical writer, despite the usual darkness of his subject!
Anyway, great work :)

[zainul]

Thank you Jane for the analysis.
In fact,I read all genres of poems.
Consciously,I don't follow any particular poet.
However,I adore Robert Frost the most.
Blake is also my favorite.
I think,you can precisely identify the influence of any poet on me because you have been studying
this aspect of English literature.
I am indebted specially to you and generally to any reader who volunteer to help me by pointing out my weaknesses.
Thank you dear friend for stopping by again.