Best Banned Poems
Cotton candy pinks and marshmallow whites
flaunt iridescent sheens buffed by the sun.
And colored clouds, lined with mother-of-pearl,
hang in the sky like a prize fairly won.
Darkness gathers in tattered strands of grey,
strewn across a sky of indigo blue.
And stars glitter as a dying sun shrinks
to a crimson ball with a scarlet hue.
Ebony fingers scratch at the skyline;
like inky tentacles grasping for light.
And as camouflaged greens morph into black;
silhouetted abstracts merge in the night.
Liquid amber burns atop umber waves,
highlighting their frothy, foamy whitecaps.
And golden beams gild glistening waters;
as cascading breakers crash and collapse.
Playful breezes tickle leaves on the trees;
sending laughter tumbling down to the sand.
And as Sol dies wrapped in a scarlet shroud,
time's suspended and reality's banned.
Categories:
banned, beautiful, color, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Quatrain
Her childhood stories bring tears to the eye
They’re of her overcoming difficulties
In an abusive family life
The subjects in racist societies
Molestation and racism are two reasons why
Traumatization had caused her to be MUTE
They ban books for the harsh reality they deny
Through reading literature, she becomes astute
And expresses her pain and sorrows
Poetry was her outlet and therapy
For writing and better tomorrows
Categories:
banned, books,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas celebration is not fully banned
Cheers! Governments explained to the locals:
For whatever reasons, that would be impossible
For Anyone gonna have a Street or public show
Finally, they haven't forgotten to overemphasize
To the young people, never forget, they said:
Christ is a Western deity, not a Chinese and
Christmas is a western festival, NOT our Traditional
Categories:
banned, blessing, celebration, christmas, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours— Radclyffe Hall
Explore themes of love and identity
Of Stephen Gordon’s innate sense of masculinity
Since a child, her desire, ‘women’
The idea that if love is considered a sin
The unfolding of a female sexual invert
The act of loving must be a tender selfless act, revert?
Love itself is not inherently sinful or
complexities of love, we shan’t ignore
But rather the circumstances surrounding it
Misfits from Malvern to London and then to Paris!
Ira furor brevis, the frailty, taboo and strife
Fellow q***r characters, all walks of life
From the *sapphic salon hostess Valérie Seymour
To the 'miserable army' and more
of outcasts that frequents the 'merciless
Drug-dealing, death-dealing' bars of Montmartre
Written in another time, still support and solidarity to
generations of LGBTQ genre
*Sapphic is an umbrella term for same-gender loving women or woman-aligned people, including lesbians and bisexual+ women. It is used to describe topics, activities, and ideas related to same-sex attraction among women. The term can also refer to the Greek lyric poet Sappho.
Categories:
banned, books,
Form:
Rhyme
Best seller
“Gone Girl” a novel by Gillian Flynn
Riddles, my wife loved games of amusement
I never found out the clue of why
she had gone missing, accuse me?
I was spent on our anniversary
Under mysterious circumstances
Nothing is what it seems
Nick and Amy’s duality
Identity, masculinity
For once I didn’t feel like I was struggling
Iconic cool girl persona
The girl men like Nick want
Never get angry, party girl, let men do what they do
Women’s issues, an essay Amy would write
Molding herself into that girl reinventing herself
Image and alter-ego are everything!
Appearance verses reality
Genuine pleasure to read
Oh, she has the last word
A classic Who done it? distinct subgenre
Surprising and masterfully done
Amy is smart, self-aware with a vindictive psyche
Warning authors of their marriage
Nick’s side or Amy’s?
Two very different humans
They both prove to be unreliable
Awry, a thriller of unease
Categories:
banned, america, books, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
“A Diary of Occupation”
Vakulenko Volodymyr’s last work
(Banned in Ukraine) eastern part 20%
Diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko — painful and true records that the writer kept from the beginning of the full-scale invasion and during the occupation of Izyum and his native village of Kapitolivka in Kharkiv Oblast.
Dangerous to the Russian occupation force
A bright and cheery children’s book writer’s remorse
He said on the tenth day of occupation FSB
“It’s who you remain during all of this”
Then, buried his manuscript underneath a cherry tree
My heart sinks when I think of Vakulenko and Victoria
A Poet, a journalist in this bloody war
This is about a writer who’d know what was in store
His hand-written manuscript's underground in his backyard
Russian troops surround his village put him on guard
His life stolen they would pillage, his books
found and burned and captured him
O Vakulenko, we’ll carry your script in our bosom
Following his death and the liberation of Kharkiv
Victoria the one his journal of the war would retrieve
Her book of Ukrainians who wrote on the war, her mission
Was killed in an air strike
Her books by Russia deemed sedition
Worried he would be tortured or killed,
in the black Ukrainian soil
Her life was also taken in turmoil
Ukrainian man in a war-torn country
Today I honor thee
Your words shall be read
Around the world spread
America like Russia may do the same
Banning such books unconscionable shame
Categories:
banned, bible, books,
Form:
Rhyme
In my heart love and
Cunning compassion are
Banned for life
Love's reward is sorrow
There is no pity in my heart
Categories:
banned, absence,
Form:
Tanka
Oh, say, tis not so!
The brilliant Bard has to go?
Mistaken educators, mindlessly think,
His golden pen was filled with racist ink?
Cancel culture, at its utmost worst,
For his masterful, classical poetry, I so thirst!
2/22/2021
~1~
Categories:
banned, education, loss, perspective, poets,
Form:
Couplet
HE BANNED CHAIRS
Looks like we will sit on the floor.
There is a new leader with a big boat to flaunt.
When we move outside there are crosses along the road.
Scare tactic.
He’s loaded with guns and an atomic twister.
Everyone will be off guard when he imitates nature.
That’s how we got the last flood.
He has come to kill us all.
This is a pretty lively waiting room.
Deflate his ego and you will get shot.
Then you only have two options
be quiet or loud.
Faith over reason
Bring guns and a reason to smile
the situation is going to get messy.
Don’t ask or tell
I will
He placed people
In a box
Politics are a control ritual, good
for confusing the public.
It’s not about bloodshed. Business
men use violence because it’s visual.
Categories:
banned, abortion, baptism, black african
Form:
Alliteration
Dreamt last night I was king of a land
A paradise filled with gorgeous women and men
Sunshine galore
Couldn't ask for more
Decreed in an edict, all clothing was banned
Categories:
banned, fantasy,
Form:
Limerick
The day after Christmas I really can't wait
The day it's all over - my one favourite date
The months of piped carol's wherever I go
I swear I'll go mad at the next "ho ho ho"
I need a lone island to hermit away
That has a no fly zone for Santa's red sleigh
And stay there for autumn (that's "fall" in the states)
With Scrooge and the Grinch - both soul and house mates
We'd ban Christmas trees - we'd ban fairy lights
We'd add tinsel bans to the State's Bill of Rights
We'd start a campaign to ban Christmas cheer
We'd ban Christmas spirit and wine and all beers
We'd change Christmas lyrics to raise merry hell
Except for that jingle where Batman does smell
We'd steal all the crackers with cheap paper hats
And plastic bum presents with jokes that fall flat
We think that's the total - we've covered all bases
We'd grumble and humbug to remove Xmas traces
But what's that someone's shouted? What's that I can hear?
Some cheerful old crackpot said "Happy New Year"
(Entry to "the day after Christmas" contest - 21st December 2016)
Categories:
banned, christmas, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Verse
Two monkeys sat in a tree
Laughing and pointing at me
It was so absurd
I flipped them the bird
Now the zoo is a place I can’t be
Categories:
banned, funny,
Form:
Limerick
An omnipotent'd been ideated by militant clan,
Aeons tell how it put them through a social pace.
To set up abode or to relate races with astute plan,
God had its genesis;women-men needed it to seek solace.
As fact a woman conceives, is manifest
Man couldn't conceive of anything but God for law and lex.
Dyed-in-the-wool,they kept bending head for mending mind lest
They vex orders of war, worship and women for sex.
But missile killed gravid woman with faded hue,
Her baby survived in placenta of its mom of Gaza:
A whole race, policies, religion; yet nothing to rue,
As if all were busy computing to bring future bonanza.
No more sacred are our Temple and Church or Mosque and tomb.
Truth says:fetus Jesus'd been bestowed on Mary's womb!
Categories:
banned, baby, betrayal, conflict, death,
Form:
Sonnet
Banned from Allpoetry
A moderator, with approval from a manager, found that someone broke the rules enough for
us to refuse access to the site to them for a time.
This ban was placed on: elhart, everyone1
This ban started on Nov 15 2:33 PM
This ban will last until Dec 15 2:05 PM. It is now November 18 06:18AM
If this is not you, please contact us at bans2@allpoetry.com
This is sent to both Larry and James.
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http://allpoetry.com/everyone1
It has been requested recently that certain site rules and guidelines be followed.
This was then followed by a final warning and directives from AnnD the Site Supervisor. As
well as a reminder towards the rules, terms of use, and conditions to which your membership
of Allpoetry was to be fulfilled to allow further use as a platform to post material deemed fit
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This and the aforementioned requests and warnings, you have now been seen to renegue on.
Your recent posts inciting civil unrest within the community of this private site.
The threats of actions being taken against censorship which has no place considering the
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The flagrant disregard of warnings previously brought to your attention.
Using the pages of Allpoetry to fuel a personal disagreement of the rules when requested
followed by moderator staff, not just on this occasion, but over the last year or more.
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Categories:
banned, inspirational
Form:
Banned Books Week Thirtieth Anniversary
By Elton Camp
That some books are contemptible I must agree
But that’s not some fanatic’s call, but up to me
When books the government undertakes to ban
That type censorship can quickly get out of hand
Judith Krug of the American Library Association
Was, in 1982, responsible for the week’s creation
A “challenge” is a request some book be banned
Surprising ones have been subjects of this demand
Golding’s Lord of the Flies has seen banning tries
And To Kill a Mockingbird has been called unwise
Orwell’s Animal Farm has been said to bring harm
Since self-appointed censors satire does alarm
Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl is called unfit
By those who, in righteous judgment, try to sit
Even though Mark Twain was liberal for his day
Huckleberry Finn some have tried to put away
The American Heritage Dictionary was not fine
Because “objectionable words” it chose to define
Catch 22 and Salinger’s classic, Catcher in the Rye
To bring about censorship quite a few will still try
Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 about censorship is one
That the “righteous” have put under the critic’s gun
Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath was once even burned
Because vulgar words the censor’s anger it earned
What gives others the right for them to try to decide
What books are unfit to read and then them hide?
Sex and violence the Bible often candidly tells about
For it to be banned will we someday hear that shout?
When bad about some writing a critic has said
It is likely that by a young person it will be read
Categories:
banned, on writing and words,
Form:
Rhyme