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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

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

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

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.

Categories: banning, books, history,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

Categories: banning, clothes,
Form: Rhyme

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

Categories: banning, change, political,
Form: Acrostic

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.

Categories: banning, books, history,
Form: Rhyme

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

Categories: banning, books,
Form: Rhyme

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

Categories: banning, books,
Form: Rhyme

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

Categories: banning, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

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,

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

Categories: banning, education, life,
Form: Chastushka