Gallows Poems - Poems about Gallows

They live in a world of illusions Gripping onto their beliefs Weaving a web of lies Steering their journey through the tide Are guardians of their pride Masses who follow their rules Followers of the deceitful fib Enjoy a life of ease The...Read the rest...

How is this free verse poem. Perfumef handkerchifs Hiding thete smells SEND THEM TO THE WORKHOUSE THEY ARE SPOILING MY MEAL Urchins and vagabonds Scavaging for food SEND THEM TO THE WORKHOUSE THEY ARE SPOILING MY MEAL The starving scrambling Food from the...Read the rest...

(This dark poem was written on the anniversary and in memory of the events of January 6, 2021.) Gallows at the Capitol By Mark D. Stucky “Hang Mike Pence” was the chilling chant the day democracy died on a gallows at...Read the rest...

"Nobody favors a share ... for sins I bear, no one cares. Now that the appointed hour pines faintly, I stand in lights grace, a shadow no more, barring lives in my wake and none before. My cup did run over,...Read the rest...

Show me how you tie the knot Wow, great! Does it fit your head? It would suit you! Are your legs tired? Don't you want to rest them? Don't...Read the rest...

Welcome to the gallows my friend Welcome to your lifes end You lived you life so fast and hard So from life you have been barred. Worshipping everything under the sun Taking what you wanted with a gun From...Read the rest...

Walked a wooded trail, suddenly unsure of my surroundings, wondered had I'd become lost.. only a moment disconcerted, as dusk grew nearer. I went over an old river crossed by an even older bridge, there not seen...Read the rest...

Dedicated to artist N. It was the spring so frantic that even the ancient gallows at the city square spawned a green sprout. I read my poetry aloud to you, my first, my awkward and ecstatic poems that I...Read the rest...

The black gallows moan in the shadowy glade where, vaguely lit by the autumn moon, dark blue pierces the night and the river murmurs of mad seas, of raging waters. Contained in the vast ether, I...Read the rest...

A gallows stands in the midnight light; The empty rope swings left to right. The rotting steps stand bleak and bare Though many feet had passed through there. A shadow recalls the wretched waiting; Of rusty bars and iron door...Read the rest...

Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain both beloved affluential cognoscenti, (took their life via cerebral hypoxia) neither death can one explain left family and friends to speculate ...Read the rest...

Walking up the steps to the gallows rope, Hands bound tightly behind me, there is no hope. The hangman, the preacher and the crowd all want me dead, For what I’ve done or something I’ve said. They haven’t given...Read the rest...

Gasping rasping clasping grasping condemned man's last gasping, rasping breath, hands on the noose clasping, grasping- death (* Tyburn was the site of public hangings in London from the 12th century, executing everyone from Highwaymen to Clergymen, at what is now Marble...Read the rest...

ILLUMINATION OF THE GALLOWS x x x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx gallows hallows haloes shallows Sallow-sad priest, hallows gallows, bleak. Saints enshrined in haloes ~ shallows shriek. 1/22/2018...Read the rest...

The gallows stand tall Booming into the white sky Wooden steps stand before me ...Read the rest...