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Best Inequity Poems

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


Premium Member Addressing Inequity
History books are filled with men’s escapades
Are women’s accomplishments seen as charades?

Joan of Arc had visions of saints leading her
to save France from Britain’s tyrannical...

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Categories: inequity, history, people, women, women,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member tears for apollo -
oh, my precious child!

let me kiss away your weep -
do not be troubled, the moon but bids good night
(stars whispering their ancient lullaby)
swallowing not, the...

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Categories: inequity, analogy, childhood, father, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To the Prodigal Child
If I could deliver myself to you 
on a silver blanket
that is prancing upon a lofty cloud 
with wine and cheese and all that you...

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Categories: inequity, child, love, mother, my
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yin and Yang
Yin And Yang




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Categories: inequity, hope, life, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its...

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Categories: inequity, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Tears For Apollo
Oh, my precious child,
Let me kiss away your weep -
Do not be troubled, the moon but bids good night,

      ...

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Categories: inequity, appreciation, father daughter, love,
Form: Free verse
The Table's Set
Whispers filter out the scent of delusion
the whippoorwills wallow in a waning sun
and thoughts are on the run

The table's set with mix-matched cups and saucers
the...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inequity, heartbreak, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Lamentations
On a ledge and in trace of paths to incandescent tunnels away from illusive digression.
Voices fade overhead into narrowing echo of screams amid mild depression.

I...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inequity, absence, anger, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reinforced
Never too late to fight the system
        although the acceptance of inequity
  just the way it is
...

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Categories: inequity, social, visionary, truth,
Form: Free verse
Young Girl
I saw you welcome the sun's kiss in the tropical country.
I saw how you wished you had swings and the feeling of soaring through clear...

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Categories: inequity, allegory, appreciation, girl, identity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Monopoly Monotony
As a child I was “board” with Monopoly
Games dragged on endlessly, such monotony
Now I’ve noticed a fearsome monstrosity
Special interests creating atrocity
 
PACs are strangling the...

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Categories: inequity, angst, social
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Name of Fairness
Alone he stood against the many,
A towering rock of integrity, 
Unafraid, 
Uncompromising, 
Determined 
To fight, in the name of his friends that 
Victims, of certain...

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Categories: inequity, friendship, parody, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gendercide
Gender inequity thought harmless, normal,
causes gendercide in dark alleys less formal.

In        India,      China,...

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Categories: inequity, childhood, daughter, death, education,
Form: Couplet
The End Day
At the day of tribulations'  
Reckless deeds and end
            Of time
Your consternation
 ...

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Categories: inequity, absence, bereavement, conflict, corruption,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the...

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Categories: inequity, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs