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Best Ban Poems

Below are the all-time best Ban poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ban poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: ban, weather,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Categories: ban, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative
The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: ban, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Course Correction
Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.

Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s...

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Categories: ban, leadership,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Categories: ban, fantasy,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Love Drug
 "I've tasted love heroin and will never have that high again"..
    (paraphrased quote one from "Notting Hill")

Love heroin is very potent...

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Categories: ban, love, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Vicious, Is the Unwelcomed Stranger
Conclusive is the board meeting by death’s merchants in Wuhan
the planet is rich, now placed in a temporary ban.
Grey hair is condemned in the statistics...

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Categories: ban, anxiety, bereavement, death, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Slava Ukraini
A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back 
If Russia can't have it, they operate...

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Categories: ban, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Book of Books
A book comprised of sixty-six,
with content of a unique mix.
Though found in almost every home,
It’s very much an unread tome.

The authors were a motley crew,
Into...

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Categories: ban, allusion, bible, christian, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Censor Me
Don’t censor me and let me write at will
The longings of my heart these pages fill
You fathom not what lies there in my heart
So don’t...

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Categories: ban, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Happy Thanksgiving To You All
This is a terrible time of year for Turkeys
How many innocent lives are going to be lost?
All their friends and relations are in for the...

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Categories: ban, america, celebration, food, humorous,
Form: Acrostic
Tiptoe
Tiptoe, tiptoe, what they say is not what they say it is . . . 

Cameras rolling, take one, action! 
“How stupid can you be?...

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Categories: ban, political, power, presidents day,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member I Do Not Like You Folk
I do not like you folk                   ...

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Categories: ban, funny, poems, satire, word
Form: Couplet
Bullfighter and Bulls
A fuming, fierce and moving target
On yor species will you place yor bet!

Aiming the blade into shoulder blade or beating heart
all toreadors hope to throw...

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Categories: ban, animal, sports,
Form: Quatorzain
Memento Mori
The bells call forth from mighty tower keeps 
To herald passing souls from here to there 
The orange sun upon the hilltop creeps 
It crucifies...

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Categories: ban, life, day,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things