Best Cogan Poems
Is this life just a hidden message?
As I pound these streets, I wonder
As I crawl these walls, I ponder
You left on a cryptic message
Never to return, yet your still out there
Oh so many times, far too many crimes
Gone for good, just like the winter air
You might be missed, as people continue to stare
It’s all in your head now
Just let it go, just let it go
Watching three women pass by, life on the their backs
Where will they go?
All still young, frail and faces full of cracks
On they move, turn and all so low
Watching the people, crowds begin to sway
Analysing their thoughts, following a long day
What’s in store when they get home?
Lost in thought, onwards I roam
It’s all in your head now
Just let it go, just let it go
It was a long time ago
Now go with the flow
© Shane Cogan, 2013
Categories:
cogan, confusion, journey, social, life,
Form:
Lyric
Superficial Smiles by Shane Cogan
A trapped house can be worse than a prison
Cell doors open daily, a sealed house door never
Guards who snarl or smile is a guard forever
They also torture, but you found your own prism
Selected friends are such a treasure
Deselect those friends at your leisure
Superficial smiles, superficial cries
Superficial tastes, superficial wastes
Handshakes in the morning
Sour milkshakes for lunch
Diluted conversations for dinner
Repetitive dreams again for bedtime
Small talk discussions over a croissant
Alcohol dimensions under a florescent
Frantic racing is your new norm
A lost cause, caught up in a storm
Superficial smiles, superficial cries
Superficial lies, superficial allies
Silly allergies are your only sickness
You deem painkillers to be your only cure
Subscription pills for the old highs
Illegals for the new lows
What is right in one place
Deemed a disease or a disgrace
Solitude is your new pleasure
Despair is a lonely measure
Superficial smiles, superficial cries
Superficial spies with superficial eyes
Today's headline is tomorrow's forgotten story
Profits over people, with business in all its glory
Che Guevara t-shirts or Guerrilla warfare neritic?
Revolutionary heroes or a Sunday armchair critic?
Mass television pictures replacing dialogue
Mindless headline people news is our new fog
What would you do now for a taste of reality?
Do you miss and crave my sensuality?
A frank remark is better than a false smile
Our historical heroes are now sadly footnoted
No longer accepted, no longer quoted
Smiles mean nothing; a false handshake is our new style
Superficial smiles, superficial cries
Superficial skies with superficial eyes
© Shane Cogan, 2013
Categories:
cogan, freedom, parody, philosophy, house,
Form:
Lyric
Engineless she lands
Late sun ripples indigo
Solo Proud lake swan
© Shane Cogan, September 2013
Categories:
cogan, animal, beautiful, bird, color,
Form:
Haiku
Moon River by Shane Cogan
Curves of liquid ice
Migratory wings on face
Red moon river swim
Categories:
cogan, africa, earth, inspirational, night,
Form:
Haiku
Raven’s Shadow
Staring beady eyed
Collecting for winters nest
Natures unique post
Silky shiny black
Dawn-to-dusk itinerant
Multitasked creature
Suave wings casted wide
Full shadow imprint on moon
Solo transporter
Beak fluid sounds
Winter snow cloaked by congress
Envy your freedom
© Shane Cogan 2013
Categories:
cogan, beautiful, beauty, bird, color,
Form:
Haiku
Magnetic lake cloak
Northern Wings summer chatter
Carroty dawn pond
By Shane Cogan (August 2014)
Categories:
cogan, animal, color, happy, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
Exit gold crisp noise
Whole winter white blanket sky
Carrot pipe smoker
Stressed humans all cloaked
A full moon mirror shimmers
Oddly naked it stands
Cold dawn miasma
Snowball friendly warfare
Magnetic eye gaze
By Shane Cogan (December, 2013)
Categories:
cogan, absence, december, environment, winter,
Form:
Haiku
The Kingfishers Stare
shy blue halcyon
caught your stare under moonbeam
ripple over splash
© Shane Cogan 2013
Categories:
cogan, beauty, bird, fish, river,
Form:
Haiku
Absence by Shane Cogan
Lost at summer clock
Insomnia blue skies
Absent minded bliss
Categories:
cogan, absence, beach, beautiful, color,
Form:
Haiku
Blue waves bursting
Tropical musical storms
Dusky milky ball
Shane Cogan April 2015
Categories:
cogan, beach, smile, stars, storm,
Form:
Haiku
Market Scene
multi coloured beans
harvest tools scrap upon stone
a place full of sacks
bright colours leap out
thawed ice under moon lit feet
chinking coins, chit chat
creatures glee with spill
drenched gold leaves with bees honey
market noise withers
© Shane Cogan, 2013
Categories:
cogan, autumn, imagination, moon, snow,
Form:
Haiku
Journey's End by Shane Cogan (September 2013)
Silently we stood tall
The sun’s dawn chill on our backs
We gathered our last few belongings
The grey skies swirled over us
Onwards and upwards we walked
Little to do, we merely talked
Oh, the endless array of colours
Oh, the senseless decay of society
The autumn countryside air fed us
Fresh golden crisp sounds under our feet, our hooting horn
Azure skies shone now, the greyness vanished
Reaching up high, seeking solace…we moved on
Teaching us it was, freaking us out…we moved on
But there is no escape ever for a nomad
A wanderer: she pondered…and I squandered
Oh, there it was again
Oh, the planet we sought
I breathed in the warm dusk air
She breathed in the moonlit sky
Ravens swarmed over us, creating one dark cloud
Bats vibrated, as feeding time commenced
Harvest gatherers signalled night time
A lonely police siren echoed sleep time
Then we both felt its glaze upon our faces
It stole our smile
It sapped our energy
Oh, we could not move
Oh, yet only approve
Resting, we had no choice but too stargaze
We shifted our tired bodies
We emptied our final belongings
The crystal full moon had hypnotised us
The sun’s distant tale had teased us
The endless blanket of stars now warmed us
An epic sky tale of foe and friend had begun
We gazed. We starred. We dreamed
Nothing could have prepared us
Nothing had been written about its glory
Indigo colours encircled its core
Hazy lights acted as a sky highway
Interlinked, interconnected, intergalactic
First our planet, then their planet
We gave way, we gave in
Our journey at an end
A new one to begin
We had found our planet
Our people
Our nature
We smiled
We blinked
We spoke
We said: Welcome home
For the EPIC (OLD/NEW) Poem contest
Categories:
cogan, adventure, autumn, color, hope,
Form:
Lyric
The Old Man in the Small Square
city dirt as mask
eternal season abode
old temples his friends
cloudy shelter sky
shuffles to collect dry leaves
rusty hinge calls night
passers-by eyes down
loud crunching, act as pillow
vulnerably wrapped
© Shane Cogan, 2013
Categories:
cogan, april, imagination, lonely, spring,
Form:
Haiku
Predictable Porcupine
Porcupine strolls by
spikes glowing only at dusk
always the same route
© Shane Cogan, 2013
Categories:
cogan, adventure, journey, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Dragonflies Breath, by Shane Cogan (Haiku style)
warm and cold it flew
purple lake at dawn lay still
wings too quick to see
Categories:
cogan, animal, beautiful, summer, uplifting,
Form:
Haiku