Francis Duggan Poems

were i born a poet a poem i would write
A poem for others to read and enjoy and recite
Of the famed Merri River an old water-way
That in Warrnambool flows into the Pacific at Lady Bay
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That genius outlives mortality is not a lie
And the wit and talent of Oscar Wilde refuses to die
He wrote his most famous poem on leaving Reading Jail
Genius rises to the surface when all else seems to fail
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He will never walk in the old fields again
Or hear the birds sing in the wind and the rain
When the cool winds of April across Kippagh blow
Above the high fields that border the mountain where the bracken grow
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The Human World is made up of teetotalers and boozers
And junkies and has been and winners and losers
The poor and downtrodden of all different races
The sadness of life on the lines of their faces
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Two years ago to cancer he lost his beloved wife
In her fiftieth year she lost her battle for life
Ten years ago their only child in his late teens in a motoring accident died
That he knows about life's tough side of him cannot be denied
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I am not a vegetarian of this i will not lie
For me for to live other creatures do die
A lot of water and land life i do eat
Since i am a person who likes fish and meat
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The poet is known for writing poetry and the novelist writes novels in prose
And the rhymer is just that a rhymer but then such is life one suppose
And very few writers as we know from writing their fortune have made
But it is true every writer is needed in the Worldwide literary trade
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I have been told i only write doggerel that i am a literary disgrace
By people that i only do know of that i never have met face to face
They set themselves up as my judges by judging me for things i like to do
Many of us can be judge-mental and i can be judge-mental too
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For legendary G A A players a place of renown
Kanturk in Duhallow a famous old Town
Where Allow towards the Blackwater winds it's way down
By the home of Duhallow's singer of old Ballads the great singer musician Tim Browne
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There is truth in the saying where there is a will there is a way
And tomorrow will come in it's own good time as the wise one did say
And you cannot change what has happened yesterday since yesterday has gone
And the now is all that does matter and life does go on
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