Long Censorship Poems

“The patience of Job” applied as an idiom that means to have great patience or endurance in the face of suffering. It's used to describe someone who perseveres through many problems or hardships.

One must possess...

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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 literary accomplishments well-known,
And your courage through the misery and morphine*...

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Sam Dumpty here for National Geoplastic Magazine. Fox news has once again scored an amazing coup by securing an interview with an angel. But not just any angel folks, we're talking the big Kahuna, the...

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Tim’s resolution surpassed all shadows cast upon him

they had grown longer over time and hell had frozen

Rain had relegated him to a trough of his own making

He sat in a muddy pit once ice thawed...

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I have heard prayers of others that, not only could  I not pray, but what I heard made me squirm.  These are dear and good people, and I feel that their hearts are...

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Children of Abgraham
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Note I did not ever say this......another poet did...
His statement inspired me to pen this Poem.
Nor does he know that people of all religions and from 
all other countries volunteer a few weeks a year...

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Hey America, what do ya think of your Pres now?
Still think he’s a moderate?
Still think the virus came from a bat?
Still think your child needs to wear a mask?
Still think Jan 6 Committee isn’t a...

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The noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the best and...

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Climb your poetry mountain, today!
Stop sitting in the vallies of yesterday .
Be deeply in love again, sing your own sweet song.
Do not imitate others your whole life long!


How utterly boring, to just conform.
Kick up the...

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Q:  Are the European nations divided with the USA' over the three year Russian 
       and Ukraine War?

A:  The answer is yes.  In order for Ukraine...

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I carry no sign at your demonstrations
All points of the debate usually elude me
Can it truly be this obvious, the right thing?

No issue or belief fits me perfectly
Yet I see your point, feel your pain,...

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This is outspoken thoughts at the end of 2023. Some may find this to be negative, , even though it ends positive. Many may disagree and are welcome to ignore this. It is not meant...

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                   Those Days of Covid and Roses
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It has occurred to me now that humanity has come to lack the culture once held 
O’ so very dear to our own existence.

  As Dante once walked with Virgil, down an epic path...

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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 no such thing,
they serve a truly evil cause,
when they seek...

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Self -Censorship, 2011
Vickie M. Ortiz Vazquez


Shut up
Stop, just shut up
I am asking you to shut up
SHUT THE HECK UP
Not again, how many time before you stop
Don’t give that look; as if you don’t understand
Left, right,...

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Tomorrow’s desert’s wet mirage, cloud’s shape men can’t embrace.
Its fantasy, parched throats stay moist, its pillowed softness drawn
beyond arm’s reach are butterflies restrained with nets we weave.
Like Sisyphus, whose life God cursed, we search for...

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The scene was set the moment we met as he guarded my
heart with verses of pleasure-
I’ll never forget the irrational threat banning poetry
beyond comprehensive measure. 
Freedom bells rang and little birdies sang to the tune
he...

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To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of a girl, decades ago.I was born the week of the...

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Last call for alcohol, embargo 
              on the cargo headed for Fargo? 
         ...

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a flustered tango of Gypsy moths 
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; 
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost 
in unkempt fields;  space stations; the sunlit-scent of lemon 
oil on cherry wood; birth; the chasm between...

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WOKE AND BROKE


        USA, how did it become so terribly lewd?
        Evil has taken free reign in all neighborhoods.

  ...

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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 for all.
It includes the basic human freedoms 
which are even...

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In a corner of my mind, where time flows like a river of lost memories,
the idea of a bizarre universe is born, where souls wander through a forest of shadows,
a collective dance of minds covered...

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