Francis Duggan Poems

At the top of people's new year's wish list you won't find poverty
For money speaks every language as most would agree
A lack of money in people causes low self esteem
Money is the most important thing to most it does seem
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Willie Neenan is still running as running to him is as much a part of his life
As the lives of his athletic daughters and of Marie his good wife
An Irish champion in his seventies and an Irish champion in his prime
No doubt Millstreet's greatest athlete he's proved that time after time.
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In the modern literary World rhyme is seen as out of date
And the long dead and the renowned rhyme writers few bother to celebrate
But I must be old fashioned one of another time
For I am one of those blokes who loves old fashioned rhyme
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I'm just your Mr Average not wealthy or poor
One who lives far south of Claraghatlea and Annagloor
The boy of the fifties is looking quite gray
One might say i have known a far better day,
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A perfect human being I doubt in the whole World you'd find
For perfection a word that cannot be used to describe the human kind
We all have our own failings the imperfections in others I can see
Though I never see the imperfections of the imperfect me,
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In his nostalgic fligths of fancy he see the old bohreen
And the old fields and the valleys in their many shades of green
And the hawthorns trees resplendent in their fragile white blossoms of the May
Here he will always be a migrant from a Country far away.
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Far north even as the crow fly from here far away
In leafy groves, woods and hedgerows nesting birds sing all day
And blackbird will sing his fanfare of the May
Before the sun rise in the dawn cool and gray,
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It will not matter then what others of me will say
That I worked hard or was lazy in every way
For the judgements of others the dead cannot hear
The one good thing about death it frees us of all fear
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It always happens after a few beers
That I must stifle back those maudlin tears
The maudlin tears I won't allow to flow
I'm not the man that some others think they know.
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You sired two children and raised them to adults most would consider that as good enough
And you were faithful to the one you married and you hung in there though the going was tough
Despite this your wife left you for another and about it there is nothing you can do
But you too can find yourself another partner 'twould seem on that the choice is up to you.
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