Francis Duggan Poems

The one with brown eyes and brown hair her Hometown is Paris in France
She has such a sweet singing voice and to music she loves to dance
She is in her twenty fourth year and happy in her single life
For some very lucky young man she will make a beautiful wife.
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They only killed enough of fish, birds and animals to insure their own survival and what they did kill they did eat
For their women their elders and children they had to hunt to bring home meat
They hunted with spears, bows and arrows nowadays men hunt with a gun
Which puts the hunted at a great disadvantage as no living creature a bullet can outrun.
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Three decades back so pretty and lovely to behold
The beauty of the seventies she now is looking old
Though she dyes her hair brown and wears makeup to cloak her wrinkles and gray
It does seem rather obvious she has known a better day.
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They tend the sick and care for the dying and their job is very tough
And for the marvellous work they do they are not paid enough
And to the call of duty they remain ever true
Our credit and thanks to nurses since credit they are due.
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I always have loved life and only death I fear
And my call from the reaper with each new dawn draws near
But 'tis only the fear I fear of death the great unknown
Till Nature claims us all we are all Nature's own.
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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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It's cruel that you should be kept in a cage
That you be forced to live in such a way
Your kin birds many miles from here live free
But here in small wired prison you must stay.
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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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To go through life without harming any
And to spread your gift of happiness
Then surely you're one in a million
And of your life you've made a success.
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Three years year on in East Timor and they are re-building Dili Town
The houses and the businesses that the Indonesian militia burnt down
These so called emergency soldiers poor East Timor did destroy
Whilst the Indonesian military to stop them did not try.
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