thank you for your kind comments

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I also think it's a good poem, JD, & could possibly be sung, too, in the manner of The Ballad of Chevy Chase..?

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Oh wow, paints a very vivid picture. Beautifully written ❤️

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A family home, some decades ago now, was situated beneath
Combe Gibbet, a high landmark surmounted by the said item
from the days when bodies hung as warnings to the criminally
inclined. It was visible for miles and clearly intended to be so.

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thank you MC, I visited this gibbet earlier this year and wanted to know the story, then I thought I could do the story justice in a poem, hopefully succeeded.

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A macabre tale well caught in rhyme, of justice catching up with
merciless murderers - the like of whom are still around today despite our pretensions to a more civilised society.

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