Eight-line Poems

Mountain Men

Mountain Men

In the days beyond years
a few wandered to the wild,
to bide with none but their own
authority; a lawless bunch,
was frontier man and bold
to live by morality alone,
but laws are all we have,
when ethics sleep on Boot Hill.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.18.22
Prompt: Lawless.