Gender Poems | Examples of Gender Poetry

Do we truly know what strength really means? Is it just muscle and might or the courage to rise after breaking? Wisdom isn’t worn on bodies. Every head holds thought every mind can lead so why is wisdom still weighed by gender? What does care look like? Is it soft hands and lullabies or is it presence in pain a heart that listens when words fall...

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Just now I’ve met somebody beaux, whom I perceive to truly glow —(oh! anxiety—oh! fitful fret!)— Somemany beaux (just now I’ve met!) has flicked a spark of gaiety O’! Fitful fret! O’ Anxiety! for outfits worn—For, mask and mark of gaiety has flicked a spark to illumine a free soul born for mask and mark, for outfits worn, and who’d begun “woman”.—Hu(man?): A free soul...

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“It's a girl!” The female form, the rounded edges that soothe and nurture Shaped and created by gentle hands to fit a shoulder under a heavy arm Beast of burden I was formed this way and now I am bruised and soft from the many blows life has landed upon me As ages pass,we continue to strive to be...

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"God created man(kind) in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. " "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. ~Genesis 1:31 & 1:27 "In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. " ~Maya Angelou grateful God created a vast variety...

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If she was the one who unbuttoned her blouse first, who closed the door, who whispered “Come on, don’t be shy,” and still—he said no. If she was the one who laid herself bare, threw herself at him like a dare in a quiet room—was he man enough to say he didn’t want it? To...

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We walked under the same sky, but carried different forecasts. your silence was a sandstorm and mine a drought. Yet we mistook our survival as our strength. I was parched with waiting and you were eroded by wind. World saw our resilience not the cracks. How I begged for rain or How you vanished behind gusts. They said strong woman is "silent" They said strong man is...

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I, looking in the mirror yesterday, witnessed distorted eyes replacing mine; and, too, the lips and nose, as if a sign, seemed bent crooked, misaligned in some way. And, as I, squinting, gazed on that display, an unheeding hand groped at the outline of the coldly reflective glass confine. I watched it slowly mangle the red-clay body which, lifeless, answered my dead stare. Tearing...

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I know you're a man but Can you cultivate some humility? I know you're a man but Be a man of very good deeds I know you're a man but Do you really have to play with me? I know you're a man but I can't be who you want me to be I know you're a man but Its not fair you play...

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They say boys don’t cry. They say it like a promise. Like strength is stitched in our skin at birth and weakness is something you have to unzip your chest to find. I was eight when I learned that sadness had a gender. That girls get tissues, and boys get told to “tough it out.” That scraped knees get band-aids, but broken hearts? Those just get...

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The way he gazes at the moon, Doesn't quite feel right; every day he has a different tune. I envy his starlight, the perfect fit for a groom The kind that doesn't find a reason to fight With much passion, I was drawn by his spiritual side, Putting on a show with his flamboyant stride...

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My dear friend, who shines my way, Lead my steps when I go misguided. Your words like lanterns in my gloomy night, Turning all my wrongs slowly into right. In every second of gloomy night, You bring the stars to make that things bright. With kind words and gentle light, You guide my heart to peaceful sight. My dear best friend, so pure,...

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Atop a bed of plastic In a house made of bone I am helpless to feel Rome’s revival Men become sheep and wolves Crusaders line up for war Careless toward their fellow heretic Houses burn Stone pillars rise from foundations All as the sands of time bury the path forward Yet even as they do, water still runs in the bath house...

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They are walking hand in hand and singing a merry little song Their smiles have lit up the place spreading love and warmth all over the human race, the wind is blowing, the trees are singing and good energy is flowing. They made a wish and throw it in the sea and the giant waves wash...

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Well here we see that something is hot? About as real as As the (tailpipe an e v's got?) The subject matter is what You have got.' Either man or woman? Is what i consider? And whether what is not.' Is what? And why are some termed non binary? Yet are So Het up on genders.? All in...

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Demigirl Definition A space between Androgyny and conventional binaries of female identity A gender not recognized by mainstream policies And subjected to the far corners of the Q+ community Act 1: Physicality I am a tangled mess of tree limbs With coils blessed by God Skin, a milky chocolate brown I trace the bumps around my knuckles My fingers map out the uncharted waves...

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