Francis Duggan Poems

He is not well known in his local pub
Or he is not a member of the football club
He likes a few beers though cigarettes he doesn't smoke
He is known what some do call your average bloke.
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He should be one worthy of literary note
Yet he has become a near forgotten poet
One of those who deserve a greater renown
Thomas Caulfield Irwin from Warrenpoint County Down
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The winners write the war history or so it has been said
And though they may have their celebrations they cannot bring back the dead
For the dead are gone forever in eternal rest they lay
And in war winners are losers despite what some do think or say,
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A man from Gneeveguilla the years have left him gray
From Sliabh Luachra in East Kerry he lives so far away
He has been in Australia since nineteen sixty four
Far distant from the byroad to the border Town Rathmore.
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Amongst the great Universe Planet Earth seems small
In size like a marble is to a football
And though great deeds of great people we well may recall
We are not that really important at all.
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Just to keep on living from day to day
Most people are brave in their own sort of way
Just hanging in there when the going is tough
Survival for some it is quite hard enough
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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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The Spring is in her prime now and the lovely marigold
Are blooming in the blackwood shade so lovely to behold
On a warm day in October close to thirty degrees
With the sun glowing in the blue sky and warmth in the breeze
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Killarney in Victoria a place that has a soul
The white waves on the sunlit beach how beautifully they roll
October at it's finest the sunshine in the sky
And the silver gulls are calling as above the waves they fly.
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Though from religious zealots of damnation we hear
Why should i fear death when there is nothing to fear
Save the thought of dying and the nothingness of death
And the thought of the pain one might feel before life's final breath.
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