Francis Duggan Poems

Joe Sullivan i always will remember he died quite young of years perhaps a few with the two score
And sad to think that he will never more drive on the roadway from Millstreet to Rathmore
I found it so sad to read of his passing an accident caused his premature end
He will be sadly missed by all who knew him and to many people he was a good friend.
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One can do their best that is all one can do and than that one cannot do much more
And one can only live for the present who knows what the future for us holds in store
If you are fair with other people and never harm one in any way
Then you are a successful person despite what some of you might say
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Deno is a religious person you hear him say that god is great
And to many he does feel superior he prides in his great gift of faith
He often does quote from the bible and lessons on morals to others he give
But he is not a tolerant individual and he doesn't practice live and let live,
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Madge the Poetess has a way with words than her there is none better
For to pen a poem or a short play or for to write a letter
Yet she does not yearn for wealth and fame for the love of writing she writes only
Without her note book and pen she says she would be very lonely,
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The sunlit wood along the hill with Nature's joy is ringing
Less than two days from the first of Spring the nesting birds are singing
The wallabies and roos in the paddock by the wood in the sunshine are grazing
And the weather for the time of year is really quite amazing,
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I will always be a fellow from Claraghatlea and that is something i never could deny
And though i live a long way from the homeplace far even as the migrant wader fly
I think about the old home very often though far from there my bones may well yet lay
In flights of fancy i see the fields and hedgerows and the old home i visit every day.
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In this World of more than six billion people of every race and breed of woman and of man
The longest lived just live a few years with the century and in time that's not a very lengthy span
And in their lives so many have to suffer and of malnutrition many even die
Whoever first spoke of an egalatarian society only spread false hope that grew to a lie.
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Forsaken by good lady luck and financially embarrassed
And by those he owe money to he is threatned and harassed
Without money he has come to know that one is in deep trouble
Each day his problems multiply and his worries seem to double,
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She was a middle aged woman when i was a young man
The wife of Willie Riordan the lovable Babe Han
A sister of Maimie Twomey's who keeps on keeping on
Though sad to say from Millstreet Town Babe Han forever gone.
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The birds in the Town gardens whistle and sing
A beautiful day this the first day of Spring
The morning slightly chilly though not even cold
And the sunshine on the trees so lovely to behold
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