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Gallows Poems - Poems about Gallows

Gallows Poems - Examples of all types of poems about gallows to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for gallows.
To my Old Age
...I Old Age, take me not as thy fugitive, For long I’ve been thy earnest votary, But now that approaches life’s fateful eve, Ye oft make me rethink my loyalty. Youth when slips by leaves a last......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, age, old,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Bridge of Emptiness
...At the bridge of emptiness Heavenly gallows stood watch At humanity’s travails As suffer-woods blaze in the furnace of toils Ashes of desperation scatter Forming thick mist of pain Hoverin......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, fate,
Form: Free verse
DAYS OF OLD 50's
... East of Eden and The Tingler. The lady killer and Julius Caesar. A star is born and Vertigo. The Killing and Ace in the hole. Godzilla and The night and fog. Jo......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member limbo
... why … why do we careless creatures hold on so tightly? tears are not poisonous they will not etch our face with the afflictions they carry but they WILL assuage its acidity - why not let t......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, analogy, loneliness, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Witches Fayre
...gather wares for market day and cauldrons of the land baneful stock for the boiling pot before the evening’s end tankards spill and taverns heave upon these Beltane days see magic folk and so......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, dark, fantasy, fun, magic,
Form: Quatrain



THE YELLOW HAWKWEED
...They sing their own songs In the spirit of light. No, they do not take credit for that. Nor, do they drain under dust and disdain That suffers hollow minds. They compose their verses in the wi......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Purim Headstand
...Purim Headstand Scaling K2’s peak, Of sudden surprise, Upending Fate, Rashaim could not sneak, Anymore, Nes apprise, Mistaken 70 years being too late, Goyim’s scheme did leak, Gave to the ris......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, courage, evil, holiday, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Jacobite Rose Scottish
... The Jacobite Rose Falling , the conscience of mankind , at ease . As soaring souls reign over our nomadic skies , Our gardens tiered as the Jacobite roses bloom , Roaming he......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, death, pain, truth, war,
Form: Rhyme
Suits of Meat
...Clueless, wandering suits of meat With eyes open but remaining blind Unknowingly searching for the truth Harming the tragic and the joyous Tragedy offers pious shelter Pain is a seductive mistre......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gallows at the Capitol
...(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......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, america, anger, history, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
The End
...The sky is falling down; the end is calling out to me. I was looking for an angel, now I know it ain’t you. So tell me is this forever. Just another day in this world where you swear you are okay.......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Obviating need to forgive
...first stirred expectation, then denial shroud of negativity, a dark cloud betrayed we reacted, soul contracted shattered was our heart that once stood so proud feeling alone, despondent and for......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, forgiveness, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Babangida
...In this mess, we called a country, the destroyers lived among us Babangida once terrorized all with Khaki, the effect of failure affects all, Ruled as a tyrant forgetting the......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, adventure, anger, angst, animal,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Babangida
...In this mess, we called a country, the destroyers lived among Babangida once terrorized us with Khaki, failures affect all, Ruled as a tyrant forgetting the future, had power ......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, allegory, anti bullying, corruption,
Form: Narrative
Love Cup, Northern Star
... Dash it.., Dash it all says I.., Through bars - I espy. Their 'eaven, their night sky. Well.., dash it., Let 'em have it., And the Northern- Love cup-stars, In a wisp of sudden sea fo......Read the rest...
Categories: gallows, angst, devotion, heartbreak, innocence,
Form: Narrative

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