Short Executioner Poems

A Poet        

                       A poet dies a hundred deaths

                       A poem is the executioner...

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Political Correctness ...
  handcuffs that restrain
  until the executioner arrives

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Translation,
  the executioner of emotion,
  —and rustler of graves

(Chicago Illinois: Water Tower with Studs Terkel—July, 1977)...

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Almost pandering sea,
     wild sea almost executioner,
     calmed the fury of the river
      by swallowing it
     delta and mouth...

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King of Hurly burly
       sovereign of wrongdoings,
       Shaman of harm,
        relative of arrogance,
       executioner of silence......

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The ground ate his feet,
The sun his back,
The fear his head,and
In order to pick up the light
from night's passage by his eyes,
He talked, gently to executioner....

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Optimism, 
Faithful, Compassionate, 
Failing, Learning, Knowing 
Society, Judge, Jury, Executioner, 
Persecuted, Impaired, Diagnosed, 
Dangerous, Self-destructive, 
Doomed....

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The voluntary choosing of
Involuntary choice

An eloquent expression of
An apathetic voice

A tribute to the losing of
All reason to rejoice

That subtle executioner…

Routine...

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My knight in shining Armour,
My sword,
Bittersweet and sour.
Harmful, yet harmless.

My executioner when I’ve wronged,
My savior in my distress.
A compatible pair;
Metal and Flesh...

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The gallows were offered,
guillotine chosen

Executioner a matter
of choice

The sinner repentant,
evil now lessened

Death calls
—in a welcoming voice

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Time, time, time knocks. 

Time, time, time – stops all voices. 

Time is against me, and you, –

It runs forward, and loves no one. 

«Time cures us». – Who is it? The doctor? 

Or, in a white dressing gown, the executioner?...

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The ultimate loneliness and red abhaya
I can be in the sun;
The crushing of the darkness, hatachanite
I could rain;
Born of the union agreement
I can be the executioner;
In a world filled the valley of death and nightmare
I can be created....

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when the sea surged get angry
how is the walk on the beach
when the executioner put the rope around your neck
you must be ready

it does not matter emerged rainbow
for color blind
to extend the studded board
not some danger
if you find the appropriate key
do not force the door

notes on hanging plate...

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He thundered the ivory
Defacing the melody
Lost deep within himself
He focused upon exacting
Icy surgical anguish
His digits stressing past
Mutilated bodies
Of tortured quarry
As silence fell
He inhaled his victory
Jubilant in his bloodbath
Those gathered celebrated
Calling for revelry
Praising the executioner...

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I follow you lord with all my heart,
so i shall kill others in your name.
I will be the officer who enforces the laws,
even if they are unlawful themselves.
I will be the jury who convicts those before me,
even if they did nothing wrong.
I will also be the executioner,
even if being so means I sin.
All this I do in your name oh lord.
Amen....

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If I was an executioner
I would be a failure pure and simple.
I would believe them.
And I would free them.

If I was the executioner.
They would all ask for me.
Knowing how easy I can be.
No one would cry.
And no one would die.
If I was the executioner.

So you are all voting for me!
What lovely townspeople you are!
Sure I will set you all free.
I am an executioner star!...

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(about 8 July of the 1998 year)
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The month of May persuaded me,
« Listen! Believe me, 
Spring weeps, fortunately, tears of happiness,
Be not afraid and do not worry, please!
My dear, all must be well.» 
But after 2 months,
July – my blossoming executioner – 
The summer killer 
who hid behind a birch,
Has shot me directly in my heart 
and has taken my boy from me....

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As the noose was slipped 'round Nathan Hale's neck he uttered this exclamation:

   "I regret that I have but one life to give for my nation!"

But to his executioner he whispered an aside and had this to say:

   "Between you and me, I'd just as soon be fishin' on Nantuckett Bay!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
©  All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 3 in PD'S "Battle Of The Clerihew" Contest - January 2012...

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A tinge of guilt or a twinge of sin
Ghostly pallor on his calloused skin
Taking a man's life away again
Might the hangman's conscience be in pain?


Society's dregs must pay their due
And to him it's just a job to do
Innocent, guilty, it matters not
He must obey those who call the shot.


Tonight he'll have sumptuous dinner
Grateful folks treat him like a winner
Like royalty, not a commoner
A toast to the executioner!


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To forgive is to forget
Even if the perpetrator has no regret
Patience is a virtue for one with might
A merciless executioner with bloody footprints in sight

Another love, Another string
A dirty little heart is all I have to win
No sympathies, No regrets 
I forgive every word you said

My woes are my lover
A connection with the lost sunflower is all I hold
As wait for you with all my desire
A bloody executioner is all I admire...

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ghostly pallor on his calloused skin,
a twinge of guilt for a tinge of sin?
taking a man's life away again,
may the hangman's conscience be in pain?

no, to him it's just a job to do,
society's dregs must pay their due,
guilty, innocent, it matters not,
he just obeys those who call the shot;

and tonight he'll have sumptuous dinner,
grateful folks treat him like a winner,
like royalty, not a commoner,
a toast to the executioner !...

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whether bound and dragged 
behind a pick-up 
‘til limbs slowly dismember
or shackled hand and foot 
then tossed unsecured 
into the back of a rolling 
makeshift coffin

whether judge, jury or executioner 
all don the same hat 
and fancy themselves a God
and your only crime was to exist 
in pigmentation unlike their own

let us not forget our tears
our laughter, our blood 
our date with mortality 
these common threads 
that bind us...

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I sat there while he prepared his poison
Her scattered frame wrapped in her favourite towel
held together by her years of drool
her pain a broken meow
unrecognisable from those late nights
when her need for more food
was echoed in my ears
Hold her tightly her executioner whispered
No tighter had i held her
The needle slipped between skin and bone
counting her breaths
slowing as her eyes smiled at my own
and as tear pushed tear
my sweet Angel was gone...

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this city I already know
I've been dying on it since forever
I killed every bit of illusion here
I was bad and I was naive and I was good
there is no street that hasn't made me cry
the trees serve as witnesses
they saw me dodging the assassins
that finally killed my dreams
it's not that I gave up
I just got tired and now it's too late
maybe come back in another incarnation
when I intend to be a fierce executioner
and not the inconsequential victim...

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Judge: Criticized because I refuse to walk the straight &

               narrow, don't meet the criteria of your blueprint.

 

Jury:  Umpired by a mass majority who rather expose my  

            skeletons for all to see, but is too afraid to rattle

            their own.

 

Executed:  Slayed my mere existence, cast away like a

                      useless vessel.

  Verdict: Neither judge, jury, nor executioner will

                obstruct, stop or hinder who I say I will be....

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