Francis Duggan Friend Poems

Acquaintances are many but friends are very rare
For with a true and trusting friend your secrets you can share
Your friend will comfort you and advise you and you will not betray
Your friend will never disown you and as your friend will stay
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Your wife she may not speak to you and your marriage at an end
But your dog will always stick by you, A dog's a man's best friend
Her friendship unconditional she will always stick by you
Until the Reaper claims her to you she will stay true.
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May laughter be with you where-ever to you go
And wealth and happiness from now on may you know
Life has not be too kind to you as of late
But like 'tis said all good things come to those who do wait
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There is an old time saying that his dog is a man's best friend
That too should apply to women for why should we pretend
That a woman does not love her dog as much as any man
Women have loved their canines since human and canine friendships first began.
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With her i would share a bottle of wine
She who loves Nature is a friend of mine
She knows the name of each species of tree
Into the soul of Nature she can see.
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I stand by my friend since my friend stands by me
When others criticize me with them she does not agree
She will not allow others for to put me down
I love her as a friend the best in the town
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A pat and a few kind words and a good feed every day
The price of his friendship is quite cheap one must say
He doesn't care what status in life you attain
For as long as he'll live as your friend he'll remain.
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A wise old lady told me years ago
The one without a friend is one without a foe
A passed down pearl of wisdom that with me does stay
And in moments of reflection to think of today
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Nelson Mandela as a person and a political leader was a true great
But he is no longer living for to celebrate
And apart from Angela Merkel who deserves to be held in high esteem
Not many others deserve to be rated is how it does seem
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If you have one true friend count yourself lucky indeed
One who will not forsake you in your time of need
That pretend friends are many and true friends are few
Is not saying anything that is in any way that is new
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You will know who your friend is when of help you are most in need
For a friend at such a time is a friend indeed
You are no longer one of the wealthy people of the town
But your friend does not forsake you when you are financially down
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It is only in a dog for it's master such devotion you will find
Unconditional love is not of human kind
You may lose the love of your husband or your partner or wife
But your dog will be your friend until the end of it's life
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I have some advice for you my literary friend did say
Perhaps you ought to consider giving rhyming away
Since for it you never receive any pay
And money is most important in the World of today
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Your friend will not desert you in your time of most need
And your true friends are rare so very rare indeed
Rats desert a sinking ship as they do say
But a true friend from you will never turn away
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Forsaken by his wife and financially down on his luck
And for a way out of his problems he was mentally stuck
As he drove on the freeway in the Winter morning sunshine
On his way to work at around quarter to nine
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We read and hear of the economy every day
But few politicians or journalists ever talk of or of anything does say
Of the Earth we do live on that the economy on entirely depend
That we take our Natural Environment for granted why even pretend
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If you are kind to your dog then you are one who can depend
That your dog is bound to look on you as his or as her's greatest friend
For when you treat your dog with kindness you your dog will never forsake
Dogs known to grieve for their dead master have wasted and died of heartbreak
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Your partner has left you and with her taken the children to live with her new intimate love friend
Your love for each other has come to an end
But your dog true to you is happy with you to stay
For as long as she or he live till their life's final day
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Your best friend of the past as your best friend may not stay
On our journey in life we make new friends on the way
From some former good friends apart in our ways we do grow
Few friendships last a lifetime this much we do know
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The best human friendships can be fickle why otherwise pretend
But you treat your dog well and he or she will remain as your friend
For in your dog you do have a friend that is true
Your dog until death remains as a friend to you
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On our very existence on her we depend
And than her we do not have a better friend
Yet we keep on cutting her beautiful old growth trees down
For to build more houses and factories in the town
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Financially down and struggling to cope
But all is not lost for the people with hope
For in hope there is not a more positive thing
The future for you better things may bring
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When the last money you did have you did spend
It is then you will know who is your friend
It is then you will come to realize
That those you thought were your friends are not to your surprise
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A true friend is for life this well may be so
But to our lives many do come and do go
And always of the past memories stir up tears
For friends of our young days we have not seen for years
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A true friend is for life this well may be so
But to our lives many do come and do go
And always of the past memories stir up tears
For friends of our young days we have not seen for years
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In life it is hard to make a trusting friend and easy to make a foe
And our past goes with us to wherever we go
Few do wish to know the sad sack of the town
And you will never know your friends until you are financially down
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For him it is not easy with a mentally ill aging wife
But his commitment to her it will be for life
From his marriage vows he will not walk away
Till death does them part with her he will stay
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When you lose a friend for whatever reason you are surely the poorer indeed
For friends in your life are important and every friend you do have you do need
So treat your friends with love and kindness since in your life they are hard to replace
For even with good friends to count on at times the challenges of life can be tough to face
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You may say without a friend in life you'll get by
But on saying that a simple fact you do choose to deny
That without a friend the loneliest person in the World is you
I only do say what i think to be true
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As a friend to a friend he said to me yesterday
Perhaps you should give penning of doggerel away
And though you are one with words who likes to play
In rhyme you have said all that that you have to say
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There has to be some truth in it one suppose
That the one without friends is the one without foes
It may be just a saying but would you not agree
That the one with many friends is not without an enemy
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Not even well known locally yet about him much to like
A friend of the environment his main transport is his pushbike
With him there's little carbon emissions he cycles to and from work every day
He does not have a car or a motor bike environmentally conscious in every way
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She loves and lives with another now his former wife
But his dog remains with him his true friend for life
And for as long as she lives his dog with him will stay
Just for a few pats and a feed every day.
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A walk every day and a few pats and a feed
For his or her undying devotion to you is all your dog does need
But your spouse is much harder for to satisfy
When compared to us dogs are so faithful one must wonder why?
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The one who does come to your aid in your time of most need
Though him or her you may not even know is a true friend indeed
One prepared to help you out of a financial hole or in some other way
A friend in need is a friend indeed as some are known to say
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There is no greater friend than a friend when in need
For such a person is a true friend indeed
The one who will stand by you when you are down
Is surely your best friend in all of the town
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My first home place from here in distance far away
And there i may not live my last night and day
From there the roadways of life took me to places elsewhere
Yet i have not seen much of the big World out there
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My friend asked me for my advice on a problem he had my thoughts on it to him i gave
I told him the truth on how it seemed to me at such a time one must feel brave
Since i looked upon him as a friend though he did not like my advice
Sometimes your truth when spoken it does seem to you can come at a price
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You feel the World's against you and your cross heavy to bear
And of future hopes of happiness you do live in despair
But your true friends will stand by you when hope from your life seems gone
And they will do the best they can to help you to keep keeping on,
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'Tis hard to make a friend on your life's journey far harder than 'tis to make a foe
And despite my three score years of living of life i have so much to know
To business people money mostly matter and money does come before all
And disputes that have led to serious crimes over money quite common stories to recall.
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The one you thought was a friend not your friend it would seem
For your friend never would erode your self esteem
Or opposite others see fit to put you down
If you call this one your friend you don't have friends in town
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Life is so sad for Rachel since Danny passed away
She plucks a wild flower from the park for to place on his grave every day
And though it has been six months since he died the grief with her remain
And the things they did together they will never do again.
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The gold billed blackbird whistling upon the the garden tree
For the past few years a good neighbour to me
He whistles every day all through the Spring
And his song to it has a distinctive ring.
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By sense of loss I now feel moved to tears
And I have not felt so sad as this for years
And deeper, deeper cuts the mental knife
Since work mate he gave up his gift of life.
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We grew up together my best friend John and I
His dad brought him to be raised by my mum his sister as a young boy
Before he sailed forth for the U.S.A.
Beyond the sea and many miles away.
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Go out and spend your money friend 'tis soon you'll have to die
So what use in piling riches up for others to enjoy
And don't have some relation say on the day they lay you low
He forgot me he left me nought the bloody so and so.
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