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Banning Poems - Poems about Banning


Premium Member Banned Book Club -IV
“Adults fear their youths who see through hypocrisy and won’t be silenced. Told to stop disrespectful behavior and not to fight ~ though it’s adults who taught them to stand up for what is right”—Poet There is a book burning Nine months since the banning of books, The politics of fear are rising from minds bent Into...

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Categories: banning, books,
Form: Rhyme
Strike Up The Ban
Strike Up the Ban Who’s banning Gone with the Wind Are they banning Huckleberry Finn The Diary of Ann Frank might offend  Some German who wasn’t born back then...

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Categories: banning, america, books, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member BOOKS AND HISTORY
May we all be blessed not to accept banning books or history any longer… to understand learning about history…good or bad will only make us stronger…. that when it comes to banning books and history… this point…this truth…should be stressed: Those who want to ban books and history have always been the oppressors… never the oppressed. ...

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Categories: banning, books, history,
Form: Rhyme
Banning Black
A middle school in Texas Banned its kids from wearing black, Claiming mental health’s affected By the clothes upon one’s back. In the ruling, “criminality” Was also being named, In addition to depression, With black clothing being blamed. Are the powers-that-be suggesting That, by switching one’s attire, An amazing shift to happiness In pupils would transpire? Every shrink should thus be fired For, once black becomes taboo, All the...

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Categories: banning, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The ABC's Of Book Banning
“Book Banning is due to fear of knowledge”—Grace Linn “I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend ...

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Categories: banning, change, political,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member A Blessing of Hope
This blessing goes out to all those who think teaching history and books you don’t like should be banned may you one day be enlightened enough to know…. No matter how ugly and painful the truth may be understanding it is the only way to heal… the only way to grow....

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Categories: banning, books, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Minds Are Closed and Books Are Banned
A mind is just a mind until it’s opened… ’Til then it remains just like a book upon the shelf… But once opened we find love and hope we can feel all emotions we begin to think and reason for ourself. There is one truth about a mind that I can offer, one certainty… one fact to be proposed… a mind has no ability for...

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Categories: banning, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Everywhere Babies Banned
The book Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers originally published in 2001… look it up…you might be amazed at all the awards it’s won! It celebrates all kinds of babies and families in this diverse and once wonderful land… Yet along with 57 other books deemed inappropriate by a school district in Florida…Everywhere Babies has been banned. I imagine those...

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Categories: banning, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beware the Banning of Books and Speech
I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning talking about gender and sexuality in schools. While closing up the bookstore the other night I was thinking how crazy can this be… as I was re-shelving one of the books they’ve...

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Categories: banning, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maybe the Doomsday Is Near
People are talking about The new coronavirus Omicron They ask whether doomsday is near No one can answer Can you But surely a tough time is ahead Travelling restrictions Will be in full action What happens Worst than the share market's Fluctuatration curve What's more Everyone may think of the outer space The last escape If not the heaven If not a devoted prayer to gain Confidence,...

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Categories: banning, confidence, courage, endurance, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Banning Hangi
Prime Minister bands hangi, racist thing to do, the backlash is not funny, silly little Jew. (Hangi - a traditional Maori meal cooked in the ground, a practice Maori have used for more than 170 years) 9th place...

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Categories: banning, education, life,
Form: Chastushka

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