Highwaymen Poems - Poems about Highwaymen

...The Highwaymen softly play Me And Bobby Magee And for the next four hours Every single drink is free. Order what you like friend And stick it on the slate Tonight we’re saying goodbye To my b......Read More

...A life four score and five short years Of tender hearts and happy tears Memories of yesteryear he's crafted into song Each album paved , a stepping stone The craftsmanship shaped a happy home Th......Read More

...Painting by the Florida Highwaymen Take me home to where joy resides. I am most thankfuL Here. My gifts bestowed by God are strewn like confettI Around ......Read More

... " Shall I Ever Be Free" Alas, my child you shan't! Get used to a world of can't! Our brains are fully scrubbed Like kids in a foaming bath. Rub-y-dee, rub-y-dee dub. We've bee......Read More

...Legend of Fosse Way Riding hard under a moonlight high not a leaf rustling and it troubles my mind In the distance there's music of the lyre and flute rippling over the moors Serenading the ......Read More

...I. Korlan lived in the Kingdom of Bellteer, in the capital city of Magoss, working as a guard on the city walls, even better, they stationed him up top. Didn’t have to talk to those who came i......Read More

...II. When the abbot came to the iron gate he made no move to invite me in, said,”I’ve seen fell creatures before this night, you are a monster of death and of sin.” I said to him,”Yes, that’s w......Read More

... 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 1......Read More

...cold wars and silvery spoons make me solemn in the self-closing eyes always priggish as a desolate diver I blindly follow the northbound shoals hoarse in the black iris I'm a tipsy toad ......Read More

...LIFES’ ROAD HOGS You’ll find them on the highways and all along life’s' byways And they refuse to see they’re the cause of all the problems They ride along the fast lane and make y......Read More

...The Pirates Pirates were around in the 16th century, they flew the Jolly Roger/Scull & Crossbones and would loot and pillage Ships at sea, for their rich cargo and gold d......Read More

... Continued from Part 1 The orphans and widows lean into the breeze watching horrified hangmen descend to their knees for the angel of mercy’s no longer inclined to forgive vengeful p......Read More

... The pen is greater than the sword or so it’s often said. A poet’s word still stirs the heart long after he is dead. The "Elegy" of Thomas Gray can still provoke a thought. And Campbell’s "Ullin’......Read More

...Dedicated to the little group of Fort Pierce ,Florida artists who became known to the public as The Highwaymen for their indomitable spirit. Paint brush flashes a chill blue shine to sl......Read More