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#gallows poems

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Deception**How many faces you wish? / For you are not true to your own / Can you bear the burden of many? / P

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Why Willows Weep.Promise me, my flesh you'll place / 'neath a fledgling willow tree. / And as it grows toward blue sk

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suspendgallows on the rooftop / where window washers go / to suspend / metal gibbet / quick hinge, raise an

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Chimeremain wept and kept, / go deaf / with / my little chime. / pass me your shoulder, / i’ll cry it out

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Deride HeistYOU SUMMONED YOU BELLOWED ME INTO THE DARK / MY THOUSAND SUNS BURNED DAY AND NIGHT FOR YOU / YOU CAL

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Last Night Before#*Have you ever counted hour by the seconds / feeling intensely hungry for life?* / If for once the

@pradip-chattopadhyay1m

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asphyxiopiliacfate's meddling red noose has found me again / wrapped, warped me into your life / and i am far too

@dorian-green1m

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Seen All to Well Souls Hanging HighI seen you all before, / One too many times. / I fear not what’s in store, / While you hide the crim

@NickolasJMcKee1m

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freestyle blabber #21Belltowers chariot signalling distance / Towering gallows where I've been sentenced / The iridescenc

@Proctor_Ehrling1m

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Funeral EtiquetteIf I somehow / screw this up, and die / in some stupid, boring, clichéed, / romantically tragic way

@nico-reznick1m

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SmokeThere’s a thick cloud of smoke inside my head / I’m trying to escape but I can’t find an exit / I co

@barry-pietrantonio1m

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GallowsI can hear the voices calling me to the gallows, and so speaks my soul. / Softly whispering my darke

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Gallows Humor 10wGallows humor / is far better / than no humor at all

@cori-macnaughton1m

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The Grim ReaperI linger in the shadows / And in the darkest gallows / But in the sun I also reign / Unfortunately I

@Pauline_Morris2m

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CannotI stand before you / accused by some fool. / You call me a witch, / but I say you are foolish to agr

@parkerishome2m

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To Liberty!I often wander past her gallows / And feel a sympathetic twinge / At glints of sun on growing rifts

@SilverNeuron1m

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UntitledI lived a life of freedom, / To have it all replaced. / By a life of judgement and trial, / A horror

@amy-slocombe1m

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Morituri te salutantOne last time her eyes dart towards the sky / Before she says her final goodbye / The end is nigh /

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Gallows DayA rope swings gently in the wind / hanging from an elevated stage / an audience mills below the step

@williamisaghost2m

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Song of RemembranceI walked this morning to the gallows / My father there awaited me / He told me, son, that graves are

@canerdayauthor2m

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On GallowsWe have all the vultures and hounds around / Thirsty eyes are in search of some human / Coffins are

@col-muhammad-khalid-khan1m

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GallowsRun freely again / Nevermore bound, with last breath / A necklace of rope

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The gallowsHow long would it take for people to hear / My gallows soundtrack? / The rhythmic thud of my leg / H

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