– This is the poem I had on my blackout page yesterday. I decided to post it again for those of you who may have missed it and also because the protest may be over, but the bill is still in existence and that is unacceptable. My poem is applicable to this bill, but also to all other forms of censorship. As an avid reader, the banning of books has always been something that is especially wrong to me.
I was planning on choosing one quote as a representative for my feelings on censorship, but I could not choose, and here they all are:
“You can cage the singer but not the song.” ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988
“The paper burns, but the words fly away”. ~Akiba ben Joseph
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
― Mark Twain
“When you ban a book you ban an idea, and that’s communism.”
– Andrea Z. 🙂
Hold back the curtain
Don’t let the wretched thing fall
Come to freedom’s SOS call
Ideas are truth and they are free
How dare they hide them so the people can’t see
Writer’s, join your hands
Preserve the freedom of this land
We are the backbone
Of every revolution
We are the first ember
Of a raging fire
Sing with this written choir
Raise our standard ever-higher
Quills raised and held in an iron-tight grip
Ban the despot that is censorship
Verse Not Prose 