#inclusion poems on Hello Poetry

Steve Clarke Apr 2020

I am

I am a woman
with a defective gene
living beyond expectation
I am more than an illness

I am a man
whose skin is shaded
refusing to be excluded
I am not just a black

I am a woman
wearing modest clothing
respecting my faith
I am more than a hijab

I am a man
who is proudly
owning my sexuality
I am not just a gay

I am a person
who is more than just labels
defining my what
or who I am

I am a woman
I am a man
I am a person
I am a noun
I am not your adjectives
I am my own
I am me
I am

A poem about identity and that no single adjective is our 'identity noun', only the accumulation of all of our adjectives.

#identity #sexuality #disability #race #religion #faith #inclusion

Steve Page Mar 2019

Heart Plus

The bigger my heart,
the greater my capacity for hurt.

The more open my mind
the deeper I need to think.

The greater my reach
the more grounding I need.

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The older I get
the more I listen.

The more I listen
the keener my hearing.

The more I hear
the more my heart weeps.

Not sure if this holds together, but you get the gist.

#age #wisdom #inclusion

amme Jan 2019

Injected

He walks upright in the night but never evolves.
Drugs in his brain, never a pure thought.
Intruding other peoples business for inclusion.
Surrounded by resonating problems but never comes to a conclusion.
Stupid.
Only wants something if he can use it.
Only turns to god when he wants to be included.
Only looks up to people who does prostitution.
Addicted to the music.
Free will, freedom is whats hes abusing.

TBC

#inclusion #prostitution #drug #infusion #addiction #conclusion

Elizabeth Brown Nov 2018

MAGA

If we taught tolerance instead of fear,
how many lives would we have spared this year?

If we taught acceptance instead of hate,
if we taught kids to commiserate,
to see what others have on their plate,
that would make America great.

#trump #america #maga #makeamericagreatagain #love #acceptance #inclusion #war #shootings #death

Sunset Meadows Oct 2018

Come Join Us By:Sunset

We make jokes about it
We hide it
Just to take the attention off
So we can hide
No one ever thinks anything is wrong
Because how can someone joke about something
When it relates to them
And it's a serious matter
Well that's exactly what we do
You would be surprised how
Well we can lie
We lie everyday of our lives
Hidden that's how we live
Secret lives
Everyday who are we
Lost in every lie
Everyday someone different
But they all have one thing
In common
We always act as a person who
Is fine
Someone who isn't sick
Who doesn't have a disease
Someone who doesn't need medication
To stop from crying
Or needs to be in a mental hospital
We act okay
We are all actors or actresses
Just trying to fit in
Doing anything to be fake
Come join us it's work
but it's better than
Being the sick person
The outcast
The one everyone avoids
Come join us and be included

#depression #life #outcast #sadness #inclusion #mental #liars #secrets #actoractress

Mystic Ink Plus Feb 2018

Cobweb

Driven energy,
Understanding silence
Familiar wavelength
With sympathetic threads
Invisible bond
A sense of prospective,
A fate of inclusion,
Synergy of trust
Moment of warmth
Bridge of communication
Law of equanimity
Seizing a moment
With a Joy without an end

Adventure of being alive
Worth of human connects
Celebrating a new time.

Shared from my Anthology, Canvas: Echoes and Reflections, 2018.

#nepal #cobweb #bond #inclusion #warmth #connects #celebrate #threads #synergy #moment

Dani Jan 2018

Why I March

Before the thunder coats my lungs I whisper soft

The storm is a cacophony of pink that flows between slow and stop.
In every direction, pointed hats and sharp signs
stinging words and biting looks
phrases dotted with peaches and comb-overs
hardened women fiercer than the surging wind.

I had never imagined feeling so powerful until
50,000 women
and men and nonbinary friends
engulfed my senses in magenta and bubblegum
and lightning struck 100,000 times in the space of two blocks.

#womensmarch #powerful #pussyhat #feminism #trans #inclusion