Best Hangman Poems

Wonder what the hangman had in mind
When he was looking in the doomed man’s eyes,
While double-checking if the noose was right 
Did he have haunting, hollow dreams at night?

Did he empathize with the condemned lost mind?
Was it compassion for beloved left behind?
Or just revulsion for...

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Ferry me furiously further 
from the furnace of self chaste 
and river of man -hope,
The island of feigned wellness,
The high-horse of self-pride;
 hangman of pure-heart. 


What's the shame in weakness?
What's the shame in weeping?
What's the fault in falling?
The tussle to stay afloat 
keeps the mind on its toes
The...

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wretched hangman covered in sin
you turn from my offer and pay me no heed
the taste of your lips brings royal pain
your cold hand on my chest destroys all that is sane

the dawn of your affection brings morning flight
my will is yours to take where you...

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Limerick: Once a hangman tied the proverbial knot

Once a hangman tied the proverbial knot
On a woman who smoked sizzling pot
Tried as he could his best
To take it all in jest:
Smoke in pot rot the knot round the sot.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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Each day another timber
Was set in place.
Letters were spoken,
Read in streets, understood-
Against Jacob's children
Until the gallows were finished.
The builder's own neck
Was fitted with the rope....

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The pay is good. The world's abrim
With men in need of dying.
Though being shunned confounds him
Some, he's past the point of trying.

Unwelcome in their church, he prays
Alone for his deliverance,
But can't recall the magic phrase
To jimmy open God's forgiveness.

He looks sidelong at all their locks,
the...

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Fresh reek, Wisteria
Sublime sun casts a umbra
Hanging by a rope...

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The hangman was a righteous man who took his duty gravely
The man condemned, with bended head moved hesitant yet bravely
Atop the stair they took their place to face the crowd there gawking
The hangman sternly cleared his throat and then commenced to talking

“The importance of democracy...

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Yes, I'm talking to you. 
Don't leave me hanging 
Like a shirt on a hook 
Or a man in a game. 
Fill in the blanks; 
Don't make me die. 
I need an answer 
Before I get hung 
And I never learn
What it is you wanted...

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Life is like a game of hangman.
     You meet a guy.
      He controls your head.
      Love him longer,
      he holds your hands.
    ...

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Hopeless endless countless lines

Any more hope draw my twines 

Never give up just take a guess

Give a riddle and leave the rest

More structure to watch me struggle 

Another question and leave a scribble 

Now all left is to draw the noose draw me scissors and...

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They pass by him shadows of a conscience
Those ghosts of evil that waver non stop
Proclaiming his name in rhyme of vengeance
Yet buried when a life for death did swap.
They abused their youth everlasting love
Cast away decency humanity
Yet skilled in God’s message from above
A mind of...

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I’m walking down the dusty road,
And they are watching me;
Reading in their eyes:
“You’ll get what you deserve,
That’s what we’re gonna see”.
But I am smiling still,
Rising on a scaffold,
And there is just one word, 
That they will hear from me:



Oh, I’ll laugh, laugh at your faces,
Inhale...

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I’m on the thirteenth step of the gallows 
with not a single fear in my heart

For when my body hangs lifeless
My soul will then depart
 
I’m not sure where I’m headed
But it’s got to be a better place than this 

There’s no one here that...

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~~~We the People Seriest~~~] 

We sow what we weave as we weave a woven cloth. 
May it be from threads of kindness; and not of uttered wroth. 

May peace, goodwill, and joy be the only words spoken; 
while the threads are being bounded__ and tightly...

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