Francis Duggan Poems

I find their guns offensive from their holsters sticking out
And I don't feel any safer when I see them about
Supposed to be the peoples 'Watchdogs' but one must ask where are they
When people are robbed and murdered and that's happening every day? .
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Long dead but not forgotten though not for any good in life he done
And those who look for heroes his type will always shun
He had two of his wives beheaded the cruel and callous one
Catherine Howard for infidelity and Anne Boleyn did not bear him a son.
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As I walked up a well worn path
By railroad track in Ballarat
Up from a clump of bleached grass flew
A bird at first glance that I knew.
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This time last year he felt so down tears for lost love he shed
She had left him for one he knew well his former best mate Ed
He felt so shattered by it all he wished that he were dead
But that time is the best healer of all no truer words been said.
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Far too many with too little it has always been that way
And far too many have to struggle just to live from day to day
And far too many children never reach the adult stage
And people still dying of hunger in this enlightened age.
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The time has come to throw my ghost away
The ghost that's lived in me since childhood day
It's lived and grown in me all down the years
I'll cast it out and for it shed no tears.
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You'd best wear footwear to the beach this weather
The foreshore sand so hot can burn your feet
In all my years and I've known many Summers
I swear by all I've never known such heat.
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I show the gray time only bring though the years have made me mellow
Still the leopard never change his spots I'm still a rustic fellow
I come from Land of bracken hills and small fields fringed by hedges
And I am still a country man and rough around the edges.
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Those who condemn others for the building of Nuclear Energy Stations
Should practice themselves what they preach
What is right for them is not right for some others
Yet they themselves are like teachers without their degrees to teach.
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His three great fights with Muhammad Ali will live on in boxing history
Joe Frazier was truly a champion few heavyweights as great as he
He enjoyed his moments of glory though nothing in life seems to last
In boxing his name it will always be mentioned when they recall champions of the past.
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