WHAT IS IT ABOUT GENDER?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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Categories:
12th grade, abuse, gender,
Form: Free verse
TessJust 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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Categories:
beauty, confidence, freedom, gender,
Form: Quatrain
It's a girl“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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Categories:
abortion, discrimination, gender, humanity,
Form: Free verse
KALEIDOSCOPIC FACES"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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Categories:
color, creation, discrimination, gender,
Form: Verse
Is He Man Enough?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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Categories:
gender, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
The Sun Never Chooses SidesWe 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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Categories:
gender, allegory,
Form: Free verse
DysmorphedI, 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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Categories:
body, depression, gender, identity,
Form: Italian Sonnet
I Know You're A Man ButI 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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Categories:
confusion, emotions, gender, how
Form: Rhyme
Boys Don’t Break -But I Did-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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Categories:
depression, gender, happiness, happy,
Form: Free verse
I think my boyfriend's Gay
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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Categories:
gender, boyfriend, fantasy, funny love,
Form: Free verse
A Light in My Darkest NightMy 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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Categories:
gender, art, cute love, future,
Form: Rhyme
The Bath HouseAtop 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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Categories:
gender, allegory, analogy, class, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Comfortable with my GenderThey 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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Categories:
gender, beautiful, beauty, boat, character,
Form: Narrative
Gender denying'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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Categories:
gender, appreciation, desire, education, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Opera for Feminine OthernessDemigirl 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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Categories:
gender, identity, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Gender Poems
Definition | What is Gender in Poetry?