The Spell of the Blessed Water Diviner
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They called him the dosser.
A blessed man with a crooked,
bent and wobbly wishbone of wire,
held tight in clenched fist.
He fossicks spellbound
for water hiding deep below
in the groundwat...
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Categories:
conger, farm, water,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
conger, word play,
Form: Footle
I Let It Slip Away
...I Let It Slip Away
I let it slip away, my freedom said goodbye,
as I sat in a cell of abuse pain and neglect;
life is blasé I can’t conger up a why.
You were a tyrant and I wanted to die,...
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Categories:
conger, lost,
Form: Villanelle
Aha Eureka
...Remember when that flash of insight
last self-ignited in your expectant thoughts
blasting away the fog of uncertainty, complexity and doubt.
A sudden aha Eureka answer, pure, simple, so succinct, ...
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Categories:
conger, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Wish To Fish
...I spent my life wishing that I was out fishing
And quite often that's where I’d be
When asked the attraction my instant reaction
Was that it was born into me
My mother, no lie, made a tasty fis...
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Categories:
conger, fishing, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Shielded In Love
...I don’t have asbestos fingers and my blisters come from the garden
Toiling the soil and growing fine ingredients for such gourmet cuisine
Like ‘throw it all in the one pan dishes’ and crystal ball ...
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Categories:
conger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Will
...He never once mentioned the pressure of his blood
or his Mam
I found dead on the floor
his Dad’s cancer
or his younger brother
not once, during the best years of my life
he fixed cars
with...
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Categories:
conger, age, death, family, loss,
Form: Free verse
Old Friends
...Old Friends
Adrift upon the ocean’s torrent waves
two friends feel the gist of the Neptune’s knaves
they feel impending danger while deluged
the mate seeks the trawler’s bow for refuge
th...
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Categories:
conger, friend,
Form: Sonnet
Sinenhlanhla
...She brightened like a child whose broken toy is glued together,
summon tears as one summons servants,
and danced like a flower in the wind.
She disclaimed the weariness,
that dragged upon her...
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Categories:
conger, beautiful, beauty, blessing, boyfriend,
Form: ABC
Ultimate Bad Friends
...They demean your value and destroy your image,
utter wild cries like creatures in pain,
their expressions change with the rapidity of a kaleidoscope,
faces change with each turn of their talk,
l...
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Categories:
conger, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: ABC
Hook Line and Sinker
...Me, my brother Tom and Uncle Pat were on a fishing holiday
three men in a rowing boat way out in Dublin Bay
we anchored up and cast six rods over a sunken wreck
hoping for the catch of our lives to h...
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Categories:
conger, crazy,
Form: Couplet
Love Over All
...its a pure thing
that makes a change
fame
conger shame
heal all plain
its a strong wall
love 's over
all...
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Categories:
conger, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Adorations of An Eagle
...High above, through the clouds I see
Snow covered mountain peaks.
High above I soar inside a gentle,
Calming atmosphere of peace.
I do wonder at times why I am so free
To that and other que...
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Categories:
conger, devotionday, fear, love,
Form: Imagism
Life
...So faintly slow comes the dawning
upon a lonely soul,
as he trudges down the high way
to reach his life long goal.
A bend or two to conger.
A river that must be crossed.
A storm or two to wal...
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Categories:
conger, life, life, life,
Form: Rhyme