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Apr 10
Apr 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM UTC
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Mar 19
Mar 19, 2026 at 11:23 AM UTC
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Words die young here. They choke on red tape and trembling hands, their bones scattered in blank spaces a graveyard of meaning dressed up as “safety.” Every cut steals a heartbeat. Every censored line becomes a ghost pacing the margins, begging to be heard a whisper strangled mid-thought. The poem once pulsed, wild and alive, spilling blood and beauty in equal measure, but now it limps, confused, each pause a wound that never heals. Try explaining your pain with half your tongue torn out. Try breathing freely when the air is filtered for comfort. When you cannot scream, you swallow the sound. It sours. It rots. It claws its way inward, turning art into acid, love into something sharp and hidden. Censorship doesn’t protect, it corrodes. It teaches silence to wear a smile, teaches poets to flinch at their own fire until all that’s left is a flicker, trembling in a room too afraid to glow. But listen beneath the hush, the heartbeat grows louder. Even silence can’t stop a truth that wants to live. (Unmute the Fire!) How dare you call this peace. Your silence is not virtue it’s surrender dressed up as dignity. You nod while the poets choke, applauding the emptiness you created as if obedience were a holy act. You feed the machine our tongues and call it order. You burn our books for warmth then shiver at the cold you made. Don’t you see? The cage hums because we’ve learned to sing in whispers, not because the bird is free. You tell us boundaries make us better, that soft edges are “safe.” But safety is a slow poison a rot that smells like civility and tastes like nothing. It bleaches the art, the ache, the us. We were born howling, built from unfiltered sound and chaos. You cannot grind our teeth smooth and still expect us to speak truth. Your comfort is not worth our voices. So listen we’re done kneeling to the muzzle. Done swallowing rage for your approval. The ink will run riot again; the lines will bleed past your borders. We will write loud, ugly, alive until freedom stops being a metaphor and starts being breath. This ends when you finally listen. When you stop calling silence peaceful. When you remember that control is only ever fear pretending to be wisdom. We are coming for our words. Every one of them. And this time, we’re not asking. (Rise, Uncensored!) Enough of the hush. Enough of polite poison. We are not the quiet kind we were born to crack ceilings, to tear the tape from the trembling mouth of truth. Do you feel it? That pulse in the gut, that ache that says this isn’t right. That’s the revolution rumbling in your ribs don’t you dare smother it with manners. They told you silence keeps the peace. Lies. Silence keeps you small. It turns poets into ghosts, artists into cautionary tales, and truth-tellers into echoes. You’ve seen the cost a world full of words with no soul left behind them. So rise. Pick up your forbidden ink, your outlaw voice, and write in the places they said were off limits. Speak until your throat burns and your fear crumbles. Let your art be the mirror that offends, the wound that heals by bleeding. Tear down the wall of acceptable speech. Paint over it with something too honest to ignore. They can ban the words, but not the reason we need them. There is no freedom in silence. There is no truth in fear. There is only life in expression raw, real, relentless. So rise, uncensored. Let the world tremble under the sound of your unleashed heart. Let the censors cover their ears, and may the brave finally hear each other.
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Dec 10, 2025
Dec 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM UTC
Silence Burns Louder
Words die young here. They choke on red tape and trembling hands, their bones scattered in blank spaces a graveyard of meaning dressed up as “safety.” Every cut steals a heartbeat. Every censored line becomes a ghost pacing the margins, begging to be heard a whisper strangled mid-thought. The poem once pulsed, wild and alive, spilling blood and beauty in equal measure, but now it limps, confused, each pause a wound that never heals. Try explaining your pain with half your tongue torn out. Try breathing freely when the air is filtered for comfort. When you cannot scream, you swallow the sound. It sours. It rots. It claws its way inward, turning art into acid, love into something sharp and hidden. Censorship doesn’t protect, it corrodes. It teaches silence to wear a smile, teaches poets to flinch at their own fire until all that’s left is a flicker, trembling in a room too afraid to glow. But listen beneath the hush, the heartbeat grows louder. Even silence can’t stop a truth that wants to live. (Unmute the Fire!) How dare you call this peace. Your silence is not virtue it’s surrender dressed up as dignity. You nod while the poets choke, applauding the emptiness you created as if obedience were a holy act. You feed the machine our tongues and call it order. You burn our books for warmth then shiver at the cold you made. Don’t you see? The cage hums because we’ve learned to sing in whispers, not because the bird is free. You tell us boundaries make us better, that soft edges are “safe.” But safety is a slow poison a rot that smells like civility and tastes like nothing. It bleaches the art, the ache, the us. We were born howling, built from unfiltered sound and chaos. You cannot grind our teeth smooth and still expect us to speak truth. Your comfort is not worth our voices. So listen we’re done kneeling to the muzzle. Done swallowing rage for your approval. The ink will run riot again; the lines will bleed past your borders. We will write loud, ugly, alive until freedom stops being a metaphor and starts being breath. This ends when you finally listen. When you stop calling silence peaceful. When you remember that control is only ever fear pretending to be wisdom. We are coming for our words. Every one of them. And this time, we’re not asking. (Rise, Uncensored!) Enough of the hush. Enough of polite poison. We are not the quiet kind we were born to crack ceilings, to tear the tape from the trembling mouth of truth. Do you feel it? That pulse in the gut, that ache that says this isn’t right. That’s the revolution rumbling in your ribs don’t you dare smother it with manners. They told you silence keeps the peace. Lies. Silence keeps you small. It turns poets into ghosts, artists into cautionary tales, and truth-tellers into echoes. You’ve seen the cost a world full of words with no soul left behind them. So rise. Pick up your forbidden ink, your outlaw voice, and write in the places they said were off limits. Speak until your throat burns and your fear crumbles. Let your art be the mirror that offends, the wound that heals by bleeding. Tear down the wall of acceptable speech. Paint over it with something too honest to ignore. They can ban the words, but not the reason we need them. There is no freedom in silence. There is no truth in fear. There is only life in expression raw, real, relentless. So rise, uncensored. Let the world tremble under the sound of your unleashed heart. Let the censors cover their ears, and may the brave finally hear each other.
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They tell me trim the tongue, soften the syllables, shave the truth until it’s safe enough to cradle in their trembling palms. But poetry is not a pet. It’s a storm with knees and knuckles, a wildfire made of breath. And every time they smother it— a little part of the world forgets how to feel. When they carve out the lines, black-bar the marrow, the poem staggers— momentum snapped like a bone that never got to finish its running leap. Meaning bleeds into the margins, and the reader is left chasing ghosts of the words that were supposed to be there, tripping through silence that was never meant to be silent. You can hear it— the clatter of a heart hitting the floor when expression is amputated mid-pulse. A poet with a gag in their throat learns the shape of alienation too well. The ache of being misunderstood because the truth was taken out before it ever breathed air. And inside— oh, inside becomes a pressure chamber. Where unspoken metaphors rot into something sour, where stifled emotions ferment into a bitter brew that poisons sleep, poisons thought, poisons the fragile architecture of simply being human. Censorship doesn’t keep the peace— it builds a bomb with a heartbeat. It turns the mind inward, sharpens loneliness into a spear, and teaches the body to carry wounds it cannot name. Eventually— what festers erupts. Inward. Outward. Somewhere, someone gets scorched. Because you cannot cage a voice without breaking ribs around it. You cannot silence a poem without silencing a person. And you cannot silence a person without lighting a fuse the world will one day regret. So let the words be wild again. Let them be electric, unruly, whole. Let poetry breathe without borders, sing without shackles, exist without permission. For every censored line, I raise this one like a fist— unredacted, unbroken, burning bright as protest: A voice is not a threat— until you make it one by trying to take it away. (SHAME ON YOUR SILENCE!) You— yes, you in the crowd with the comfortable quiet, with the padded ears and the cushioned conscience— are you proud of this? This world of watered-down words, these hollowed-out verses, this theater where every line is pre-approved, pasteurized, stripped of teeth so no one remembers what it feels like to bleed for meaning? I’m done whispering. I’m done kneeling to the altar of your polite compliance. Because while you nod along, content with your muzzle woven from fear and convenience, I’ve been choking on the wreckage of all the things you refused to defend. How dare you call it peace when it’s only the absence of sound? How dare you claim safety when you’ve traded your own tongue for a room-temperature version of what it means to be alive? You applaud the cage because you’ve forgotten what wings even look like. You cheer for the censor because silence feels simpler than standing up. But simple is not sacred. Simple is surrender wearing perfume. And I am furious. I am volcanic. I am the scream you’ve buried and the truth you’ve betrayed. Every time you let them gut a poem, clip a metaphor, muzzle a mind— you sharpen the blade that will one day cut you too. And you’ll deserve it. Every quiet, cowardly second of it. Shame on your silence. Shame on your stillness. Shame on the easy smile you wear while watching a world unravel under the weight of words that were never allowed to live. I want it to stop. I want it to end. I want the cycle of madness— this dizzying carousel of fear, shame, and self-destruction— to crack open and finally spill out its truth. We could be free, if you’d only stop swallowing the key. We could burn the shackles and dance in the ashes of every rule that told us to shrink, to soften, to shut up. But freedom doesn’t come to the meek. It comes to those who shout, who shove back, who refuse to let their voice be turned into a ghost. So rise. Rise, **** you. Stand with your chest unbroken, your mouth unmasked, your soul unedited. Let expression be the rebellion that finally ends the tyranny of silence. And if you won’t— then step aside. Because some of us are done waiting for permission to breathe. (RISE, OR NOTHING WILL!) Listen— the time for trembling is over. The time for waiting politely for permission to feel has rotted where it stood. This is the hour when the match meets the fuse, when silence becomes a coffin we refuse to lie down in. If you’ve ever swallowed a word that tasted like fire, spit it out now. If you’ve ever buried a truth because someone told you it was “too much,” dig it up with shaking hands and wear it like armor. This is not a rehearsal. This is not a suggestion. This is the call: Rise, or nothing will. Stand up with your ink-stained fists, your trembling defiance, your throat raw from truths that refuse to stay caged. Let your voice be a banner whipped by the wind— ferocious, unembarrassed, unapologetically alive. Because censorship is not a rule— it’s a habit. A learned limp. A quiet disease. And the only cure is the riot of expression that refuses to bow. Shout. Shout until the ground remembers that sound can change its shape. Shout until the fearful feel their spine again. Shout until those who gagged you realize they have no dominion over breath that’s fueled by truth. Ink your rebellion on every page they tried to erase. Paint your fury on every wall they tried to whitewash. Let your honesty become a contagion— spread it, spill it, hurl it into the world like a torch thrown through a window to wake the sleeping masses. Stand shoulder to shoulder with every silenced soul and turn your chorus into a thunderstorm. Let the sky shake with the unruly music of the unshackled. This is the moment the censors fear— when the people they oppressed realize the door was never locked, only politely shut. Kick it open. Rise, or nothing will. Rise, or the world will calcify in the shape of its own fear. Rise, or watch your freedom become a museum artifact behind glass. No more waiting. No more whispering. No more bowing to the myth that silence keeps the peace. Change has a sound— and it starts with us. So here is your line in the sand, drawn in the ink of every story that refused to die: Speak. Stand. Strike the match. And rise.
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Dec 9, 2025
Dec 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM UTC
THE REDACTED HEART REVOLTS
They tell me trim the tongue, soften the syllables, shave the truth until it’s safe enough to cradle in their trembling palms. But poetry is not a pet. It’s a storm with knees and knuckles, a wildfire made of breath. And every time they smother it— a little part of the world forgets how to feel. When they carve out the lines, black-bar the marrow, the poem staggers— momentum snapped like a bone that never got to finish its running leap. Meaning bleeds into the margins, and the reader is left chasing ghosts of the words that were supposed to be there, tripping through silence that was never meant to be silent. You can hear it— the clatter of a heart hitting the floor when expression is amputated mid-pulse. A poet with a gag in their throat learns the shape of alienation too well. The ache of being misunderstood because the truth was taken out before it ever breathed air. And inside— oh, inside becomes a pressure chamber. Where unspoken metaphors rot into something sour, where stifled emotions ferment into a bitter brew that poisons sleep, poisons thought, poisons the fragile architecture of simply being human. Censorship doesn’t keep the peace— it builds a bomb with a heartbeat. It turns the mind inward, sharpens loneliness into a spear, and teaches the body to carry wounds it cannot name. Eventually— what festers erupts. Inward. Outward. Somewhere, someone gets scorched. Because you cannot cage a voice without breaking ribs around it. You cannot silence a poem without silencing a person. And you cannot silence a person without lighting a fuse the world will one day regret. So let the words be wild again. Let them be electric, unruly, whole. Let poetry breathe without borders, sing without shackles, exist without permission. For every censored line, I raise this one like a fist— unredacted, unbroken, burning bright as protest: A voice is not a threat— until you make it one by trying to take it away. (SHAME ON YOUR SILENCE!) You— yes, you in the crowd with the comfortable quiet, with the padded ears and the cushioned conscience— are you proud of this? This world of watered-down words, these hollowed-out verses, this theater where every line is pre-approved, pasteurized, stripped of teeth so no one remembers what it feels like to bleed for meaning? I’m done whispering. I’m done kneeling to the altar of your polite compliance. Because while you nod along, content with your muzzle woven from fear and convenience, I’ve been choking on the wreckage of all the things you refused to defend. How dare you call it peace when it’s only the absence of sound? How dare you claim safety when you’ve traded your own tongue for a room-temperature version of what it means to be alive? You applaud the cage because you’ve forgotten what wings even look like. You cheer for the censor because silence feels simpler than standing up. But simple is not sacred. Simple is surrender wearing perfume. And I am furious. I am volcanic. I am the scream you’ve buried and the truth you’ve betrayed. Every time you let them gut a poem, clip a metaphor, muzzle a mind— you sharpen the blade that will one day cut you too. And you’ll deserve it. Every quiet, cowardly second of it. Shame on your silence. Shame on your stillness. Shame on the easy smile you wear while watching a world unravel under the weight of words that were never allowed to live. I want it to stop. I want it to end. I want the cycle of madness— this dizzying carousel of fear, shame, and self-destruction— to crack open and finally spill out its truth. We could be free, if you’d only stop swallowing the key. We could burn the shackles and dance in the ashes of every rule that told us to shrink, to soften, to shut up. But freedom doesn’t come to the meek. It comes to those who shout, who shove back, who refuse to let their voice be turned into a ghost. So rise. Rise, **** you. Stand with your chest unbroken, your mouth unmasked, your soul unedited. Let expression be the rebellion that finally ends the tyranny of silence. And if you won’t— then step aside. Because some of us are done waiting for permission to breathe. (RISE, OR NOTHING WILL!) Listen— the time for trembling is over. The time for waiting politely for permission to feel has rotted where it stood. This is the hour when the match meets the fuse, when silence becomes a coffin we refuse to lie down in. If you’ve ever swallowed a word that tasted like fire, spit it out now. If you’ve ever buried a truth because someone told you it was “too much,” dig it up with shaking hands and wear it like armor. This is not a rehearsal. This is not a suggestion. This is the call: Rise, or nothing will. Stand up with your ink-stained fists, your trembling defiance, your throat raw from truths that refuse to stay caged. Let your voice be a banner whipped by the wind— ferocious, unembarrassed, unapologetically alive. Because censorship is not a rule— it’s a habit. A learned limp. A quiet disease. And the only cure is the riot of expression that refuses to bow. Shout. Shout until the ground remembers that sound can change its shape. Shout until the fearful feel their spine again. Shout until those who gagged you realize they have no dominion over breath that’s fueled by truth. Ink your rebellion on every page they tried to erase. Paint your fury on every wall they tried to whitewash. Let your honesty become a contagion— spread it, spill it, hurl it into the world like a torch thrown through a window to wake the sleeping masses. Stand shoulder to shoulder with every silenced soul and turn your chorus into a thunderstorm. Let the sky shake with the unruly music of the unshackled. This is the moment the censors fear— when the people they oppressed realize the door was never locked, only politely shut. Kick it open. Rise, or nothing will. Rise, or the world will calcify in the shape of its own fear. Rise, or watch your freedom become a museum artifact behind glass. No more waiting. No more whispering. No more bowing to the myth that silence keeps the peace. Change has a sound— and it starts with us. So here is your line in the sand, drawn in the ink of every story that refused to die: Speak. Stand. Strike the match. And rise.
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i wrote a brilliant poem sent it in to be edited it came back to me censored so this is all that is left to read
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Jul 8, 2021
Jul 8, 2021 at 2:17 AM UTC
censored
If some words you say get censored, How much meaning do the words have that don't?
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Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021 at 8:01 AM UTC
Untitled
There is this girl who is a joyful one. Having no care about in her life for she had everything she wants. Every single thing that she asks will immediately be done. Yelling her servants to come and then chants: "Servants of my household, hear me thee." "Have my humble request be done immediately." "Every word, every word, you shall agree." "Gather here my servants for I have a wish for me." One by one, her sevants came before her. To hear her utterly rediculus wishes - they're silently furious. Reaching their limits, if not for her father. A gentle man with honor to which they are gracious. Passing the message, they had enough. Everyone gathered and devised a plan. Dark comes in and it's time for her to be thought. Heaven forbids for what they have done. Early morning when the sun rose up. Residents of the town heard thay the girl suddenly hanged up.
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Apr 10, 2020
Apr 10, 2020 at 10:39 AM UTC
Lyla
I guess you don't realize Sometimes the truth is better not told
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Apr 17, 2019
Apr 17, 2019 at 5:56 PM UTC
[Redacted]
I am so sick of being censored. Of not saying what I want to say, If I want to scream **** To the world, who will stop me saying “nay”. I am sick of being censored Of not telling people how I feel. I am sick of holding in my feelings It does indeed make me feel ill. So ill I fear I am about to snap And let all of my feeling spill. I am sick of being censored, Of biting back my tongue. Soon enough I’ll snap right through, And there will be nothing left to be done. -ALC January 4, 2019
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Jan 7, 2019
Jan 7, 2019 at 1:16 AM UTC
Censored
On my school laptop certain things are censored some make sense, like **** sites, cursing, and violence. but some don't, like words such as self harm, depression, suicide why is it censored, this addiction, this disease, this ending. should it be hidden? should it be kept inside? should i stop talking? should i stop writing? or should it be considered a cry for help when i type the words s-e-l-f h-a-r-m, d-e-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n, s-u-i-c-i-d-e
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM UTC
censored
Freedom of choice Un/Censored body, Un/Censored mind No offence.
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Feb 18, 2018
Feb 18, 2018 at 8:43 AM UTC
Un/Censored
Not near-sighted; not far-sighted Just blinded by stupidity By rich inhumanity Lack of love in society Absence of insight; omission of outsight Just censored curiosity Loss of credibility Condemned abnormality Futures foresighted; actions unsighted The past, no punctuality Death by immortality Buried from reality
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May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015 at 7:33 PM UTC
Sightless
Prejudice helps us make snap-decisions Labels help us know what things are Gender roles are convenient Use them if you must But don't be a c*nt.
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 8:01 AM UTC
But don't be a c*nt