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# Ghost Town
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/ghost-town/
- Published: 2023-04-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: A tumbleweed meanders, blindly. Sharp, gusty wind its hapless guide. The hanging street signs creak, unkindly. Saloon is empty, dead inside. Town square abandoned, dust and gravel. The gallows, where a judge's gavel w...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

A tumbleweed meanders, blindly.  
Sharp, gusty wind its hapless guide.  
The hanging street signs creak, unkindly.  
Saloon is empty, dead inside.  
Town square abandoned, dust and gravel.  
The gallows, where a judge's gavel  
would send a miscreant to hang,  
or pray, get rescued by his gang,  
stands lifeless, and devoid of function.  
What's law and order to a ghost?  
Some surely went back to their coast,  
when the expected railroad junction  
was moved due west. The town remains.  
But the relentless desert gains.