Gender Poems - Examples of all types of gender poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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our curse - a love poemi see the way you look at him,
holding his hand,
kissing him,
and i see you’ve been cursed.
cursed to love a man you never truly loved,
cursed to lose the girl who gave you butterflies.
if you were...
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Categories:
break up, gender, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Our Daily BreadOur Daily Bread
Flour, yeast,and milk,a bit of butter too,
and giving it a little time to rise,
into a loaf, it grew..
From this mass of sticky flour
will come warm, pillow soft bread.
My body...
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Categories:
culture, dream, flying, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Phantom Painat night, when the blue moon calls out to all wild things,
its azure a calming wave in the bottomless screaming night
I walk in time and with each furthering step,
sweeping strides
which pay more mind to...
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, gender, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Exiled At HomeHere I am standing in this secluded space with the pillow of hope hanging over my face, I cannot go backward or forward, I am backed up into this corner with my hands tied and...
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Categories:
gender, anger, christian, community, culture,
Form: Narrative
FreedomI watch the days roll by and my vision explodes in the sky, morning and noon is merging in one and my energy is spilling all over the land. Seagulls of assorted colors parade on...
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Categories:
gender, age, america, conflict, england,
Form: Narrative
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOWTHIS WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
Pink for a girl; blue for a boy,
Was how we dressed our new bundles of joy.
It was easy to tell a lass from a fellah,
But now we have to dress...
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Categories:
gender,
Form: Rhyme
The Dowry in The SkiesThe smell of fresh baked cakes keeps floating in the air and daylight burst through the sky spilling coffee latte on the roof and I stood still inside and watch the cream drips slowly from...
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Categories:
gender, best friend, culture, dark,
Form: Narrative
the shadow self wants to dancei’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing
inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before
repetition becomes habit
take me back to simpler times
an early childhood memory
just one day when i didn’t allow myself to be consumed
by...
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Categories:
gender, age, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
From Gaia’s WombOh, Mother Earth, our sacred home,
Where we have life and freedom to roam.
Your beauty vast, your glut grand,
A gift to all, across the land.
Yet we humans have battered your grace,
With greed and folly, staining your...
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Categories:
earth, gender, woman, women,
Form: Rhyme
HomosexualityHomosexuality, a love that's true,
Not inferior from the love of me and you.
It's a bond transcending gender and race,
A relationship that time and judgment cannot erase.
For some, it may be hard to understand,
But love who...
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Categories:
gender,
Form: Rhyme
Murder MysteryThe rain it pelts
The lightning crashes
A shadowy figure
Through streetlight dashes
The strangers meet
The wine is poured
To infiltrate
The secrets stored
The army man
The cook, the nurse
Field questions deep
Without rehearse
To crack the code.
To solve the crime.
Complete the...
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Categories:
blessing, christian, friendship, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Memory Laws In The USI was reading on the so called memory laws or a state-approved interpretation of history. There have been states (Idaho, Oklahoma, Virginia etc.) to name a few, that have passed their own type of memory...
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Categories:
america, gender, race, racism,
Form: Prose
New beginningsThey said,
"Fake it till you make it".
I faked my life,
I faked my soul,
I faked it all the being of my being.
She said,
"Just try little harder"
I tried it till I was numb,
I tried it till I...
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Categories:
break up, feelings, gender,
Form: Free verse
A mother's daughter part 1You look just like your mother my relatives often cry and when they do the words fall upon my ears like knives.
They say I bear no resemble, no appearance of my father but I...
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Categories:
absence, christian, family, gender,
Form: Free verse
Maladapted, Part IIYou hear people thinking that they
can break reality with thought,
that thinking it must make it so,
I think we all have seen their lot.
The kids that think that they are cats,
and demand litter in their schools,
the...
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Categories:
confusion, gender, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Gender Poems
Definition | What is Gender in Poetry?