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Best Women Poems

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 To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
 ...

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Categories: appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse



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
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
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
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 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
Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: women, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

In the deep core of her skin
I feel a human who is no saint  
Cutting out her heart, ripping everything to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: women, abuse, beauty, dark, emo,
Form: Epic
Women's Circle
Taking the risk,
Baring the soul,
Seeking the wisdom
That shall make us whole.

Raising the arms,
Spreading the wings,
Hearing the music
That deep in us sings.

Stepping the dance,
Chanting the song,
Feeling...

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Categories: community, sister, women,
Form: Quatrain
Man and Woman
She is                       ...

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Categories: body, poems, woman, women,
Form: Concrete
Slow Movin Tights
I'm in me bath here, with a box of red cheer, 
yeah a box of red cheer, beer's too bloody dear.
Me mind's wanderin twixt big...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: me, red, women,
Form: Ballad
10 Things Every Woman Should Know
Everyone has rolls when they bend over
When someone tells you you're beautiful believe them, they aren't lying
Sometimes we all wake up with breath that could...

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Categories: appreciation, women,
Form: List
Pledge of Love and Loyalty
This pledge that l,Ntando, make today serves
as my guideline that I shall follow
happily, ungrudgingly and tirelessly
for the sake of our love life.
Indeed l am well...

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Categories: women, anniversary, beauty, caregiving, christmas,
Form: Epic
Secretly Obsessed
Obsessed with the thought of you
wondering if it's only me or
if you sometimes remember the sweet things you've said
and if you meant them how I...

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© Humble B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: women, adventure, confusion, dream, fantasy,
Form: Verse
When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman
She's nobody's but her own
She embraces truth in life
with compassion in her soul
When a woman is just a...

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Categories: beauty, blessing, women,
Form: Light Verse
Hope
Don't rush to wash off the sea salt 
drying on your skin;
the hopes it carries from other oceans,
those remain yet to be seen....

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© A.O. Taner  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: women, august, beach, beautiful, cool,
Form: Verse