Stereotype Poems - Poems about Stereotype

Forget everything you have heard about stereotyping the pigs. I met some the other day, who were cleaner than my cousin Jigs. They vacuumed and dusted the barnyard until it was clean enough to eat. Then they cleaned out the barn, until it was ridiculously spotlessly neat. Forget about mud, someone said when they met these pigs. They are now...

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Tell me— Did you fear the Rumors? About me, us, ilk? Greedy and needy and yearning For what you Cannot give us! I’m her—your Worst fear Given flesh. Insatiable, hungry Consumed with a need no One can meet. I mean it. No one. Biologically impossible. I do want it all. In me, around me, on me, Breathe in the smell of one and Taste Another. I’d beg, Really. I am everything wrong, But I feel so right I...

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Ebony blue-eyed dragon of fierceness with green iridescent wings, How do you hide in the night sky? Not easily, she replied, but it can be done, if you are true to your kind. Better when it is foggy, and when other dragons are not about, for this is when people least expect you. Do you sneak up on your enemies?...

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"Not everyone who drinks is a poet ... some of us drink because we're NOT poets" - Dudley Moore, "Arthur" Not all poets are lonely and envied, apart, Broken, dark souls straining for light, outspoken and proud. Not all musicians struggle with substance, Or...

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Angel? Demon? Faerie? Witch? Random labels None apply. We are all changelings Pure and simple Or complicated and unpure Depending upon the mood, the moment, and our momentous events. Divorce, death, cancer, car wrecks, they all take a toll on us. Changing us completely in one second. Giving us a perspective we never had before. Showing us that our opinions are not the same now. Sometimes switching to the...

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A pair of monolid eyes, and I’m academically enlightened. As if I’m some talented prodigy on his way to an Ivy League. Able to quickly solve problems without ever breaking a sweat. Absolutely - perfect - in every single subject I decide to take on. Always an A+, an automated Asian-American achiever android As an unwilling recipient of a C...

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I was told I am a "typical black female stereotype" I grew up without my biological father??... My uncle was my dad. Despite this fact I am certain he his the best father figure anyone has ever had. I was told I am a "typical black female stereotype" I have kids and their father and I sometimes have issues??. But...

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While I appreciate the vacation it would have been better if it were paid. Funds lessened by nature’s aggravation, lends credence to the starved artist charade....

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You thought you had me figured out Before you knew my name Cause you're you and you're unsatisfied That I am not the same You'll never change the way I love And you can fight for you're dominion But I'm worth a million times the weight Of a dogmatist's opinion I know that all that you...

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Life of a stereotype me not Doing the actions I forgot Like freezing when I should be hot Digressing your opinion of a plot Doing little when expected of a lot If I don’t have it, then what do I got A loose rope with a knot Or cold piss in a pot With the gun of truth, here’s my shot Of the...

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Joke I will bomb you, Offend my faith, god and I I threaten you with death? Am I what joke says? Offend my faith, god and I I threaten you with death? I am not this way, Offend my faith, god and I, I threaten you with death? I want peace and love Offend my faith, god and I, I threaten you with death? I want free...

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Statistics show an epidemic A problem at hand the statistics are looking at me. They say that my education is an unattainable, unfathomable, distant goal That a life on the streets is the farthest I will ever go. They say that my qualifications will limit my achievements, They say I will be a never-ending victim of the streets, Healed only by the...

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Live by Stereotype, Die by Stereotype, Living superficially with double standards, Racism, sexism, Haters, Hating on who you want to be, Who you were, and who you are, Biasing opinions on bad examples, Not wanting to learn the truth, The truth silently hiding behind the exterior, The reality, Blind to looks, Based on actions, attitudes, and personality, Based on honesty, pride, and intelligence, Based on... The truth......

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