Inspiration Gender Poems

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Black vs white vs dark skin vs “yellow bone
Men vs women vs straight vs homosexual
Poor vs the rich vs Afro vs weave 
Christian vs Muslim...

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When you hear that bass in the background,
Just know that it’s my heartbeat breaking through.
I hear those chains around your ankles as you try to...

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As girls, we learned the art of putting on makeup
From our mothers and sisters and aunts, those women
Who cared for us and kept us from...

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Ratify Femininity to the nation grown from women			
Women born and bred yet they still deny
How many would it take to rectify?
Maybe a man not given...

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Back in ancient matriarchal time
Divine inspiration told sacred stories
of epic journeys
for creation and birthing re-creation
and against death and degeneration

Around fire-circles
for cooking
and cleaning
and keeping wolves
and shape-shifters...

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TODAY’S WOMAN

A column can scaffold a back that is enervated.
We as women will burden ourselves with hate.
That is we will take on another’s disintegration.
All in...

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By Laura Dee Battle
November 15, 2014

When I held your hand
Did you ever understand?
Could it be the way our stars align?
I prooved to be a flawed...

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Early this morning, he sits hot front of my desk
Stared on him and questions accumulated, 
Why this, why that, why you attract my eyes
With your...

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I call it a blessing from above
And I know everyone wants this to have
Everyone is looking for it
But only few can found it

I'm lucky I'm...

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When I hear your name
My heart beats faster than usual
It's not that I am ashame
But It's just your name is too special..

Can't control the feelings
When...

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