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Conger Poems - Poems about Conger


Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberA Bigger Eel

...longer
conger...
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Categories: conger, word play,
Form: Footle



Premium MemberI 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

Premium MemberAha 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

Premium MemberA 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



Premium MemberShielded 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

Premium MemberHook 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things