Best Cogan Poems

Just Let It Go

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...

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Categories: cogan, confusion, journey, social, life,
Form: Lyric

Superficial Smiles

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...

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Categories: cogan, freedom, parody, philosophy, house,
Form: Lyric

Swan Lake

Engineless she lands
                                Late sun ripples indigo
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Categories: cogan, animal, beautiful, bird, color,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Moon River

Moon River by Shane Cogan 



                                       Curves...

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Categories: cogan, africa, earth, inspirational, night,
Form: Haiku

Raven's Shadow

Raven’s Shadow



                                   Staring beady eyed
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Categories: cogan, beautiful, beauty, bird, color,
Form: Haiku

Irish Morning Mist

Magnetic lake cloak

                   Northern Wings summer chatter

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Categories: cogan, animal, color, happy, imagery,
Form: Haiku

Enter the Snowman

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


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Categories: cogan, absence, december, environment, winter,
Form: Haiku

Absence

Absence by Shane Cogan


                      Lost at summer clock
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Categories: cogan, absence, beach, beautiful, color,
Form: Haiku

The Kingfisher's Stare

The Kingfishers Stare

 

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Categories: cogan, beauty, bird, fish, river,
Form: Haiku

Africa Ocean Moon

Blue waves bursting

                       Tropical musical storms

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Categories: cogan, beach, smile, stars, storm,
Form: Haiku

The Old Man In the Small Square

The Old Man in the Small Square

                                  

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Categories: cogan, april, imagination, lonely, spring,
Form: Haiku

Market Scene

Market Scene
 

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Categories: cogan, autumn, imagination, moon, snow,
Form: Haiku

Journey's End

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...

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Categories: cogan, adventure, autumn, color, hope,
Form: Lyric

Predictable Porcupine

Predictable Porcupine



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Categories: cogan, adventure, journey, nature,
Form: Haiku

Too Many Lost Orange Sunsets

Too many lost orange sunsets by Shane Cogan

Oh why do I care 
Oh why do I still cry
So many years I have lost crying over you
So many lost words 
So many lost crimes
Now a million times
I keep thinking back to that last kiss
Oh so long
too...

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Categories: cogan, absence, deep, image, july,
Form: Lyric