Gaol Poems - Poems about Gaol

...One day, Hoonkie came to King Salz's hall, Demanded a penny, but the king's voice did fall, He seized the poor Hoonkie, threw him in the gaol, In a cell dark and dreary, where shadows did sprawl. ......Read the rest...

...(Oscar Wilde wrote that long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" in 1897, quoted here. In it, a man met his death; for some decades the UK has not had the death penalty.) ......Read the rest...

...DIRT It's only dirt that I throw in this holeUnder this dirt now your forever gaolWh......Read the rest...

...Oscar Wilde BALLAD of REDING GAOL . . ¶ ¶ ¶ ___________________ [ _____ ][ _____][ ___ ] ......Read the rest...

...I’d give away my freedom just for thee And gladly be thy servant all my life, For where thou art is where I want to be In this uncertain world that’s full of strife, I’d be thy guide through a......Read the rest...

...My ballot arrived in the mail Like a skull & crossbones in gaol But what gets my goat If I do not vote Then the GOP will prevail* *For the Trumps to escape prosecution, only the number of......Read the rest...

...‘Tis lucky me father lies in the grave, Than t’see the havoc I have wreaked In the name of actin’ bold and brave, My misadventures dastardly peaked. In this musky gaol I am wasting ......Read the rest...

...My heart like a desert dims dry, Streams of tears fill my eyes. For my pains and sufferings still I cry... What use is endurance but why. My life is done, my thread is run. Ages of lachrymose ......Read the rest...

...kept out by nutters in side in sighs inside they would have to kill to get passed i hear the clacking in the buzz wrong answer pass go Andrews and drew the second favourite card get out o......Read the rest...

...David Jones, the best rat catcher Shropshire has ever had must take some criticism for young Molly turning bad. Even though his daughter found rich co-incidentals, no credit could be taken by rat ......Read the rest...

...It was an afternoon, I sat lonely; And watching the horizon silently. Suddenly I watched a flock of birds flying in a straight way, Perhaps to this nature, they were trying to say. Oh! they w......Read the rest...

...my latest anti CCP turtle poem-- CCP Turtles Grassing Line China’s virtual hotline Report online remarks Slander Communist Party history Crack down “bygone nihilists” Party’s 100th centen......Read the rest...

... "This Naked Dance" This naked dance before the tenuous judgement of sentences the company of words from all the silent voices seated in t......Read the rest...

...You tell me what's illegal! Nothing can be illegal to me because whatever has been done, this life can never set me free, and that should be illegal for those fame seeking legislators who sent me ......Read the rest...

...In early eighteen-forty-four, In Cornwall’s heart; on Bodmin Moor, Charlotte Dymond, a young farm maid, Had her throat slit with a steel blade, She crossed fast streams and deadly bogs, Found he......Read the rest...