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Gamine Gert Dont Play

...Gamine Gert got on well with boys
She blew up dolls and the rest of her toys
We used to call gals like her tomboys in my day
She is wiring the house now; Gamine Gert don’t play....

Categories: tomboys, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Pond

...POND
looks fun
after school

chasing silly boys
sitter mom watches me
scraping my knee on sharp rocks

“Tomboys get hurt less than some girls”...

Categories: tomboys, childhood, hurt, memory,
Form: Verse

Tomboy

...Years before 13th birthday
Sun beckons me run play
In the street under golden ray
With neighborhood kids on hills of clay

Learning to ride bike and skate
Playing kickball run chase
Playing fo...

Categories: tomboys, america, appreciation, basketball, black
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Tomboys Bob and Wheel

...Tomboys
vibe accidentally; 
It’s a roll of the dice; 
Despite not being seen,  
get along best with guys;

A chance
boys don’t dive in the deep;
They never see romance; 
Walking around aslee...

Categories: tomboys, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Other

We All Might Be They

...I me we they she he
Beyond only one possibility 
Not limiting myself as a she
Honoring my other sides including he

Why gender ever only meant one way
Sure did limit us back in the day
It is e...

Categories: tomboys, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

My Apple Tree

...They’re cutting down my apple tree.
Well, I say it was mine, even
Though it was in a neighbor’s field.
She never minded that we climbed
In it, and we often did,
Being such tomboys as we were!
T...

Categories: tomboys, appreciation, childhood, feelings, memory,
Form: Free verse

Gilbert and Lily At the Pond Picking-Up Frog's

...If Gilbert and Lily put their feet in the pond
How much water up to the knees if they slip and fall
Oh, the yucky green algae green nasty moss
Stains the clothing green that the children wear
Oh,...

Categories: tomboys, 4th grade, adventure, analogy,
Form: Free verse

He Hated Her

...


When he was born,
the doctor said
the baby was a girl

And as he grew up,
the tomboys schoolyard teased,
she could really take a punch

Then when he reached adolescent age,
the ...

Categories: tomboys, anger, angst, body, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse

I Don'T Understand Friendships

...I don’t understand friendship.
Why do people who play as your friends all through your childhood
then turn around and hurt you.
Then turn back around like nothing’s ever happened, and play nice.
...

Categories: tomboys, absence, anger, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Girl Power

...Today girls are so different
A lot of mix attitudes
Some are so nice and friendly
And then some are so very rude

I tell one girl how she pretty
She told me to go to hell
Then I did a little observat...

Categories: tomboys, girl, introspection, life,
Form: Light Verse

Abby Turns Three

...Abby daddy's rejoicing a favorite hobby 																 Making you laugh he riding your first stick pony 														 The surrealism from mamma dada to mommy and daddy    														 Your famil...

Categories: tomboys, childhood, faith, family, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Rhymes With Bliss

...happiness
i have spent this life
with mermaids and maidens
the most beautiful of women
who made words like sweet perfume

flying above me are valkryes and fairies
long looking for my soul
and...

Categories: tomboys, epicwords, me, me,
Form: Name