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Best Censorship Poems

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


Premium Member Brute Censorship
If you are so proud
of your sensibilities and tastes,
so convinced that your arbitrary judgements
are infallible as heartbeats of angels,
if you are the sole instrument of...

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Categories: censorship, art, freedom, love,
Form: Didactic



Censorship
CENSORSHIP

There is a language I spoke and I knew.  
It fluently told it's stories in dance.  
Graceful chaînes that turned our spirits out...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: censorship, angst, art, music, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Good Ship Censorship


It's an all expense paid  trip, you know?
Until you decide, you won't bow to the 
government freak show.

Facebook, Twitter, and other associated 
BIG tech...

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Categories: censorship, heartbroken, humanity, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Human Rights Today
For centuries, minorities have fought
to gain their human rights. How can it be
that even now so many folks do not
feel safe in “civilized” society?

And one...

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Categories: censorship, rights,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: censorship, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative



The Silent Code of the Animal Farm
The tricky question of how many animal farms we have
May be more complicated than most of us think;
There are at least some fifty-five animal farms...

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Categories: censorship, abuse,
Form: Verse
How Would You Think Without It
I hear some college students claim
they don’t stand against free speech,
all they want to ban is what’s ‘hateful,’
it will ‘improve’ society.

In truth they will do...

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Categories: censorship, appreciation, freedom, growth, how
Form: Rhyme
Writer's Block
Hours spent in wondering
About absolutely nothing –
The unwritten poem
Too routine to read,
Too dreary to discuss.

Contemplating what could have been 
Belief in magical endings –
Impossible outcomes
Too...

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Categories: censorship, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swearing In Your Name
This little poem is filled with swear names, 
Swear names that are really quite lewd,
From Bummy McBumbum to Cocky McCock, 
These names are really quite...

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Categories: censorship, funny, humorous, political,
Form: Quatrain
Up Your Asterisk
I’m not a fan of censorship
But there should be no risk
When writing of a body part
To use an asterisk.

When not used as a swear-word,
Which might...

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Categories: censorship, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member -the Poet's Hands Are Tied-
I’m in a mental drought
My mind is empty, my hearts beating
No! Happiest in my soul
My feet sore, no place to go;
I’m happiest when I’m convergent
Penning...

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Categories: censorship, absence, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Freedom's Blessing
Many blessings we are given.
Some of us receive more of some blessings
than we do of others. 
However, there is one blessing
which needs to be equal...

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Categories: censorship, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are Women Really Liberated
Really? Where?
I still see them as fearful as fifty years ago.
To state any concerns about especially politics, and so.
Those fifty years ago when we wore...

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Categories: censorship, character, perspective, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Parable About Dao and the Enlightened I-Don'T-Care-Man
Once, a wise man, not enlightened and not an I-Don’t-Care-Man, came through the woods, thinking of the meaning of life. Suddenly, a Very-Scary-Black-Forest-Merde* appeared on...

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Categories: censorship, internet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Someone has to say it
This is outspoken thoughts at the end of 2023. Some may find this to be negative, , even though it ends positive. Many may disagree...

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Categories: censorship, america, angst, new year,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs