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Accessibility Sonnet

Although accessibility at times appears an empty dream
Creative strategies MUST lead to recognition of this right
Confirming care for special need, for firm and long term oversight,
Efforts sustained and thinking free to guarantee a meta scheme.
Strengths and weaknesses should be offered mutual esteem,  

Suspicions more suspicions breed, pollute the stream of life which bright
Is meant to shine, from bias freed, no creed or colour, to indict
Brains or disability - for things are seldom all they seem.
In age of ubiquity true opportunity may gleam,
Lifting barriers to excede the expectations which tonight
In sight or hearing often seed fear, frustration bottled tight.
To handicap the right 'to be' is recognized within man's team.
Yet - if respecting privacy - tomorrow's sensor networks may
stimulate diversity, to hope and scope add interplay.

 

 

 

 

 



 

Author notes

16 syllables with internal rhyme at the end of each hemistiche

(c) Jonathan Robin and joint copyright extended to :

The International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
http://www.icdri.org 10 March 2006

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  • TizMoi
    March 26

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    Very well written indeed. What a wonderful message is written in the acrostic format. Yet - if respecting privacy - tomorrow's sensor networks may
    stimulate diversity, to hope and scope add interplay.


  • micol gold member
    December 24, 2007

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    Solid and important message, expressed 'accessibly' (itself a rare achievement in contemporary poetry) and skillfully. The complex form balances the complex needs you speak of.

  • ecrivain01 silver member
    December 24, 2007

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    I am not fond of acrostics ...

    but I have to say that this one is not done too badly, except that I have reservations about the ending. If you mean accessabilities, you've misspelled the word, and if you are saying accessabilitys you have definitely misspelled the word, unless there's a different kind of English involved here. Perhaps the Brits or the Australians might spell it differently. There's so much misspelling on this site that I am loathe to say for sure which is the case, but you might want to check it anyway.

    All in all, you've done fairly well with this.

    Thanks for entering and Merry Xmas.


  • Ale E
    September 9, 2007

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    I really liked this. It's unique and the flow was pretty well throughout the poem. Thank you for entering my contest. I wish you the best of luuck.

    aleXox- never stop writing.

  • Providence
    August 22, 2007

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    This is so true! Yet as I was reading it...I thought about persons liabled "disabled" and those who are not. And so often those who have eyes can't see and those who have ears don't hear.

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