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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Infamy and Narcissus
If Narcissus had just been a female
she would not have been infamous at all
Admiring her locks in clear water
she might have been anyone’s daughter
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Categories:
celebrity, gender, hair,
Form: Couplet
Taking a Nee
He once was a she
Though now she’s a he
If he marries me or my brother
~ Hee-hee we will be
...
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Categories:
confusion, gender, giggle, marriage,
Form: Light Verse
They Speak Australian in Heaven
There I was standing at the Pearly Gates
I was so excited to learn my fate
First, they sat me down
On my head a crown
Then the question ~ What are your...
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Categories:
fate, gender, heaven, humor,
Form: Limerick
Asherah Speaks to MeA periwinkle love root talisman is bristling with
Red pepper battle orisons, black pepper war songs
Asherah's wormwood words and valerian sorceries
Rise with Sirius and its blinding vervain rays
This waxing moon, a hollowed out nutmeg,
Takes me to...
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Categories:
deep, gender, passion, power,
Form: Free verse
O WOMEN, THE MOTHERS AND SISTERSO Women, the mothers and sisters,
That the world can treat you like this!
You were heroes from the start
When you left your father's house
Aiming to build your own nest.
This you'd do in a foreign land,
The home...
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Categories:
abuse, freedom, gender, god,
Form: Ode
Straight Talk
Teachers' unions today
finally got their way
Transvestite's now an option
~ It's required to be gay
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Categories:
education, gender, teacher, usa,
Form: Rubai
Man Cannot Be Woman, Woman Cannot Be Man - IVIV.
Lia called himself a woman,
though his chromosomes disagreed,
inside he felt he was female,
he made that his identity.
In the second year of high school,
the woke faculty played along,
but Lia would not face the knife,
even if his...
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Categories:
confusion, gender, how i
Form: Rhyme
Man Cannot Be Woman, Woman Cannot Be Man - IIIAlex had been born a woman,
but now declared she was a dude,
she had been on testosterone
for years, since she turned twenty-two.
Her college had supported her
as she had made the transition,
it had not been an easy...
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Categories:
confusion, gender, how i
Form: Rhyme
Man Cannot Be Woman, Woman Cannot Be Man - IIII.
Now Lena was the career type,
a driven, female engineer,
she built systems than ran the world,
a success story, it appeared.
But Lena felt a ticking clock
as thirties kept going on,
she tried to find a man she loved,
but...
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Categories:
confusion, gender, how i
Form: Rhyme
Man Cannot Be Woman, Woman Cannot Be Man - II.
Lacy had become a lawyer,
she brought home six figures a year,
and she wanted to have it all,
so a tiny baby appeared.
Her husband said he would stay home,
watch the kid, do domestic stuff,
Lacy was a ‘progressive’...
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Categories:
confusion, gender, how i
Form: Rhyme
My Sister Is A BarbarianWith but the feet inactive
Hastily she walks with the heart
With eyes watching
But the heart is snoring
And she in haste speaks with lips
Whenever she feels the challenge.
By a touch of a man's finger
Her mind bleeds,
With anger...
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Categories:
anger, conflict, gender, girl,
Form: Free verse
No Figuring People
Yes, let us defend Latvia's 1.9 million souls
while we let Ukraine's 44 million die on the vine
As we froth over inequity and gender pronouns
~ pretending that Europe's just fine...
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Categories:
gender, judgement, usa,
Form: Rhyme
to know and not to knowTo know and not know.
Red moss, crimson blood of a slaughtered calf
I knew seen it before but could not recall
where and when.
Like seeing a landscape painting in a valley
of cobblers where children ran barefoot on
summer...
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Categories:
age, gender, growing up,
Form: Sonnet
Says The Simple WomanSimple men are simply simplified,
And no one of them has this ever denied.
Real men have the third eye
That looks beyond mere externals.
Simple men fall for the exterior,
Unlike the latter that seek for the interior.
Like a...
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Categories:
body, death, evil, gender,
Form: Free verse
Reds Against QueensAlthough I am a ***** white Queen
let me reassure you
I can be just as mean
or as green,
Mr. Clean,
as any fascist
conjured in your wildest
wettest dream.
I can kick my ruby RightWing heels
and hold my greenly skanky breath
as...
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Categories:
gender, happiness, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Specific Types of Gender Poems
Definition | What is Gender in Poetry?