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Below are the all-time best Women poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of women poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Like a Girl
I play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl, 
And when I run -- I run like a...

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Categories: women, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We Are Not Merely Poets
Some of us are secretive at first. We hide our poetry’s soul self, 
gently letting her peep out; sometimes regretting it immediately.
Fearful of critiques from...

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Categories: women, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Shame a Woman
Never ever shame a woman
for the fire in her soul
still your fear that you're unable
to give that which makes her whole

Never ever shame a woman
for...

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Categories: passion, women,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: women, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: women, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Worst Love Poem Ever Written
I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...

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Categories: women, cancer, cry, death of
Form: Elegy
The Woman They Know
 Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
   her fiery scars pound against her sanity
    struggling in twisted ropes of...

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Categories: analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse
Untamable Clemency, Collaboration With Ink Empress
A collaboration with Ink Empress, a piece we wrote for “Woman’s Day” for all the strong women warriors out there. Your strength is felt. 

“Untamable...

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Categories: women, beautiful, celebration, courage, for
Form: Free verse
She's Beautiful
I know a girl
That's pure beauty to see
Won't mention her name
As I feel there's no need

You'd know by her smile
Her sparkling eyes
The way she celebrates
Every...

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Categories: beautiful, women,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                 ...

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Categories: journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sonnet Celebrating International Women's Day
With threads of golden light, your spirits flare,
Each woman shines, a steadfast astral pyre,
Your valiant souls defy the tethered snare,
Like distant suns that pierce the...

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Categories: women, celebration, freedom, grandmother, mother,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Still Winter
Dead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer

Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...

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Categories: women, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seduction
My view on seduction,
 is that what you're asking me? 

Specifically love, 
my thoughts on loving a woman,
that's what you want to know?

Have you ever...

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Categories: romance, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Question of Love
Loves promenades towards emptiness
	longing is a void
darkness of a million universes
where mythical black holes
chant of timeless desires

Yearning for carnal eternity
where candles never die


Two of us
	never...

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Categories: women, beauty, heart, introspection, passion,
Form: Free verse
You'Ll Be a Mountain
I know its hard to imagine now
But some day you’ll be the key and not the lock
The exception not the rule
Some day you’ll be a...

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Categories: women, anxiety, bullying, child abuse,
Form: Prose Poetry

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