Francis Duggan Poems

You only can live to be the best you can be
But who is successful to you may not be so to me
Suppose most of us see others in our ways differently
And even those with similar opinions on some things disagree
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The praises of Nature and Nature's Seasons Poet Jill loves to sing
The Summer and Autumn and Winter and Spring
The flora and fauna she sees every day
With words she is one who does have a way
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They spend most of their day chasing flying insects in the sky
And hundreds of thousands of kilometres in their short lifetime they does fly
With dark blue wings and back and tail and under light gray
Welcome swallows are birds I see often sometimes every day
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We never stop learning in truth one can say
We learn as we live from life every day
Yet the more we does learn the more we realize
That we does know so little this not a surprise
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Empathy is the power of understanding others and is a marvellous gift to have indeed
It is a near relative of compassion and humanity of more of the emphatic in need
One with empathy is one who has compassion for those in life who have been doing it tough
They feel sympathy for the poor and the hungry the people who are living and sleeping rough
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Billy Dave is in hospital last night he came out second best in a pub fight
Quiet Jim faster than him with his hands he hit him with a left and a hard right
Leaving him with a broken jaw and some teeth missing and looking quite a sorry sight
And news that the bully got his come uppance was received by some with delight
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A morning in late August dawning cool and gray
And a blackbird is singing in Illowa today
His beautiful voice for to hear an unmistakeable thing
One knows that Spring is near when the blackbird does sing
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Time even to love can become a foe
He used to love her many Seasons ago
But she did not love him at least not back then
And she left him in the club of love's disappointed men
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I thought Claraghatlea was a memory of what was and what used to be
But Claraghatea it did not leave today it is living in me
Though today I feel I would be a stranger to many where old Clara Mountain looks down
On the countryside of Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra and the fields bordering Millstreet Town
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The town's most famous person is known far and wide
Quite a young man with time on his side
He is quite a hero to fans of Football
But as a person he is one not that great at all
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