Best Gallows Tree Poems
A View From a WindowAs dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and hide.
Outside, the twisted streets retreat. Last night they seemed so...
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Categories:
gallows tree, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
While Waiting At the River StyxWhile waiting at the river Styx, in twisted time untaught,
from branches of the gallows tree, in recollections wrought,
your soul, a beggar’s blanket, hangs in crazy quilted knots,
with dangling pearls and diamond studs in dripping crimson clots,
midst gaping wounds and bulging eyes like fouling apricots,
for wrapped...
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Categories:
gallows tree, death, judgement,
Form:
Monorhyme
By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 2Continued from Part 1
“Upon your knees in golden naves, while peeking through the slots,
You horded...
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Categories:
gallows tree, men, time, war,
Form:
Monorhyme
Angels On Your ShouldersStare all over, O World, you scarcely utter.
Bear stalwart angels to arise over the air tugger.
Odoriferous water may abscond the realm of prosily.
Such as the Goddess of Heaven perpetrates an odyssey,
Please, Lord, I pray you are aware of my plea heed.
The blunder I committed thwarts...
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Categories:
gallows tree, allusion, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name is vanity!
By doubting Nature's regnancy,
defying laws with levity,
we strain our...
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Categories:
gallows tree, corruption, culture, environment, money,
Form:
Monorhyme