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The Thought That Lingers: Part Six Karl Constantine FOLKES	syntax is a hangman’s verbiage; looped around, enchaining him; semantically,...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
PAINFUL MESSAGE Norbert Tasev	The inevitable endpoints, like Hangman loops, were already choking our throats in full...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
September William Butler Yeats	But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman's rope was spun, And what, God help us, could they...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
THE DARKNESS mad hippie poet	This depression is like a hangman's noose getting tighter than loose oh, come on, kick the chair from underneath...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower Dylan Thomas	How of my clay is made the hangman's...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The twinkle in his eye. A J C	I can see the hangman at the gallows holding a...	Rate it (4.67 / 3 votes)
Story of a Psychopath Vector	A decade has passed, the hangman arrives to play his...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Salem Mother Theodosia Garrison	IV They burned a witch in our town, On hangman's hill to-day; And black the ashes drifted down, Ashes black and grey, Not white like those...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Spiritual Manifestation John Greenleaf Whittier	Tough as their breeches...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Voyage To Cythera - (Twelve Translations From Charles Baudelaire) J. C. Squire	One, the chief hangman, larger than the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wanton Barter Kurt Philip Behm	who calls out the score The Jester or the Hangman, the Undertaker sure Everyone’s nights are haunted, when sleeping with the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AGAINST THE TIDE Norbert Tasev	Behind him hangs a hangman's noose his shipwrecked past, perhaps as well as his no-nonsense, despicable present, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AGE-IMAGE Norbert Tasev	moved away, and at the same time an extended Hangman's time haunts me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Bent Up Atis	any shadows that may hang around the hangman at the gallows or the bright morning sunlight refracting rainbows within the prizmic dew...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epitaph [Hangman's hands laid in this tomb an] Ambrose Bierce	Hangman's hands laid in this tomb an Imp of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Undress Uniform Ambrose Bierce	) He stood in a shroud on the hangman's trap, His eye burning holes in the black, black...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
As If I’m Really The Goat (Bussokusekika) Edwin Tanguma	My beautiful be yawn say Were I thee hangman What”s the me meaning of goated Some believe I’m a has-been As if I’m really the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At the End of My Rope Marion Darracott	agape, stand in awe as the hangman trips, slips and falls, thrusting me away, soon untethered, feet free to run, hands-free to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Awakening Nighttiger	Relieve my hopes that dwell upon the hangman’s truce One last breathe I beg, the next will break these...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR Norbert Tasev	The vast womb of our hangman-time is now a single twinkling, burnt-out candle...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
BUTCHERED PREY-AGE Norbert Tasev	little life should not be a mere fluttering, hangman's petal - but a hopeful redemption that all may not be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cain Ambrose Bierce	The prison doors obediently yield, The baffled hangman flings the cord...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Celebrity Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Or has been sentenced piteously Beneath the hangman's hand to die, He's as a noted person prized, In portrait is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Complexity of things not visible Norbert Tasev	is devoured in sips by the unworthy Hangman's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Confessional, The Robert Browning	Till near one busy hangman pressed, And, on the neck these arms caressed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)