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Best Censured Poems

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


Oxymorons
Paltry poetic presidential prattlings on poultry playing
  cockalorums chasing chickens, censured to castigate the cockerals,
   tricky tray turbo turkey tidbits tentanize the...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: censured, america, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse



Milk Carton Crying

My poor vocabulary babies 
are gon missing
Tell me kind sir, have you seen them?

Us etymological mothers to
lingual children of lost former meaning,
we are milk carton...

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Categories: censured, grief, metaphor, sad, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Take Life In Stride
Take life in stride

Peaks and valleys as I ventured

Take life in stride

When slipping down, seek the upside

Sell your soul; you’ll be indentured

But heartfelt words can’t...

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Categories: censured, life, philosophylife, life,
Form: Rondeau
Crucifixion
Jesus, no doubt, is my hero and friend,
Till the end.
Was he perfect?  Don’t know?  But if So?
When he told the Pharisees that they...

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Categories: censured, angstgod, me, god, hero,
Form: Rhyme
I Hear the Voices In Your Head

You’re driven to do bad, bad
	real bad things
Chucky did it, you’d often say

You’re given to say bad, bad
	real bad things
You said it’s Rhoda who talks...

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Categories: censured, dark, horror, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Body Language Is Often Inconclusive
Body Language 
Is often Inconclusive
Written: by Tom Wright
1/29/2013


Studies have shown that with folded arms,
That we’re either uncomfortable or nervous;
Or we’re in possession of negative thoughts,
And...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: censured, body, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Identity
I am the daughter of two hard working parents 
Both who raised a strong christian daughter who is mixed with a touch of irish and...

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Categories: censured, 12th grade, addiction, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's a Crying Shame
George Washington would never believe it and call it a crying shame. I have observed the prohibition of prayer in public schools. Free speech is...

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Categories: censured, america, god, leadership, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Who Told You
Who told you...
that...
Your black...
Isn’t beautiful?
That your broad nose,
Wasn’t descended 
From Kings & Queens.
That it didn’t speak 
of Royalty?
That the onyx of your brow,
And the copper,...

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Categories: censured, love, racism, self,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Free Cee Pain I Disdain Made Plain
PAIN I DISDAIN MADE PLAIN

Upon a road of crooked adventure ventured I
With my words flowing from the forest to the naked plain
Two statesmen and one...

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Categories: censured, angst, me, people, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Truth Is Here Somewhere:1: Echo Poem
An Echo Poem

Original: This Much I Know – Poem by Lora Colon of PoemHunter
Reprinted here with permission.

Soon the sun will set in this valley
Where I’ve...

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Categories: censured, betrayal, loneliness, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Fantasy Land
No more mosquito sucks or dog bites
Fear of the approaching leopard that tears the flesh
Or any threat of a dense forest or cathedral
Want to remain...

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© Gargi Saha  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: censured, fantasy
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life In the Time of Corona
I wonder how it will spin?
When they tell of that spring. 
Eyes will meet with a nod and a wink
In keeping their lies in sync....

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Categories: censured, sick, solitude,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nasty
When are we going to learn
We need to shut our trap
What is it with you
Your snide tone
Your petty remarks
Everything we say is ignored
Censured or corrected
Cause...

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Categories: censured, anxiety, conflict, perspective, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Expressed Censure Criticism - -
EXPRESSED CENSURE CRITICISM - -

All though I seek your approval;
I am certain to give you my best;
Never, the less I am in removal;
Above all ties...

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Categories: censured, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs