Short Gallows Poems

Old Salley faces gallows.
Will she eat Jail gruel?
Will monks pray?...

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on a sunny day
          She visited the gallows
          To see her loved ones...

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take me to the end
take me to the high gallows
your revenge subtle
the trapdoor my feet placid,
the door of my heart open.

© Harry J Horsman 2013...

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Though suffering shadows
my memory never shallows
my husband past memory follows
As his body swallows
through the earth, his house gallows
And forever as widows...

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Where I draw upon loneliness gallows

I search to and fro

Never finding what's needed

When I know where I am going 

The search ends

And 
I find my way....

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Ink
death rose
gothic mood
gallows bouquet
sweet scented aroma, grave companions
deep Mahogany, blood stains, velvet touch
doleful embers
charred petals
mournful
grief...

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 his plea
                  for clemency
           has fallen on deaf ears - 
  a death row inmate walks to the
                       gallows...

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Parents,
  hover over their children

Adults,
  smothering their young

Choices curtailed,
  freedom spoon fed

Gallows
  —for youth to be hung

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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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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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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We’re here to chase rainbows
We’re fully involved
Within fictive gallows
We’re here to chase rainbows
We gaze through the windows
We, truly, are lost
We’re here to chase rainbows 
We’re fully involved...

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morning erupting a darkened sky,
hanging shadows from gallows poles.
dancing ribbons becoming light,
closed eyes, orange, red, yellow.
nature’s chorus sings
of heaven’s gates,
warmth above
In Him
grace....

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ILLUMINATION OF THE GALLOWS
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gallows
hallows
haloes
shallows

Sallow-sad priest, hallows gallows, bleak.
Saints enshrined in haloes ~ shallows shriek.

1/22/2018...

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Show me how you tie the knot
   Wow, great!
Does it fit your head?
   It would suit you!
Are your legs tired?
   Don't you want to rest them?
   Don't you trust yourself to overcome anything?
Don't you trust me?...

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Kill one man
and you go
to the gallows
Kill one hundred
and you’re lauded
a hero
Intention like rain
falls on
mountain and plain
The one
flowing downward
—the other to drain

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
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The gallows were offered,
  the guillotine chosen

The execution a matter
  of choice

The sinner repentant,
  the evil now lessened

Death calls,
 —in a welcoming voice

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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.          
                    Behind concrete walls

                 Breaking the human shackles
                  
                     of man's ignorance


______________________
For Abe's contest
'From a Birmington Jail'...

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Convicted witch
Who cursed the rich
Will strangle in
A rope-choked grin.

The gallows creaks!
Before two weeks
The duke she named
Collapses, lamed.

His crops decay,
His hair grows grey,
And two weeks more
His lips froth gore....

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Speaking ill of others, gossip, carrying tales
     the quickest route to hell's fiery jail
   for the mightiest weapon of war is the tongue

   Who lives, who dies -- a civil tongue's praises are sung
     or for lack of same on the gallows is hung...

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Choices
a reminder …
each one comes with a cost
Freedom won
or gallows hung
to gain what could be lost
Decisions
cross the tundra …
reforming time itself
Transporting ice
through devil fire
—one glacier left to melt

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
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welcome to my western age
when gallows are in a rage
it's in the turning of the page
sought through the tears in your eyes

seek the flames of gratitude
sheltered far too in the mood
the thought of a miracle mile
a smile from a lonesome child

getting a bit wild...

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Stakeholders" cartels, oligarchs are beneficiaries of corruption.
The people and the institutions are occupied with their interests.
Corruption is the main cause of the economic wrack and ruin.
Honest people end up on the gallows.
In Pakistan Honesty is the worst Policy....

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Standing fifty cubits high-
the gallows meant for Mordecai,
but Haman's scheming went awry;
and on the gibbet carved from pride
not Mordecai, but Haman died.


08.10.19

( reference - Old Testament - book of Esther )

FF1 series 22 - vignette : Brian Strand's blog...

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A length of knots makes crooked necks
That's bound by ropes to gallows
Tied by lore and judges hands
And braided by deeds of fellows
And though the graves of many knaves have gone unmarked with cruel intent
Their kin be sworn, with devils scorn
That they will not soon forget...

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An eloquent stutterer he was,
whose anecdotes were luscious and true
he lived in the days of aesthetics,
but had no comeliness in size or stature;

His teachings were unadulterated and void of fallacy
Ipso facto he was condemned to the gallows,
he tasted of the legendary hemlock potion
And died before he lived....

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