Francis Duggan Poems

Since eventually we all do run out of time
For me like all other rhymers there will be a last rhyme
But there will always be rhymers since they are born every day
The people with rhyme words who do love to play
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The past is behind us and the future ahead
And the now is all that does matter as has often been said
And it is true you learn more from life than any book you have read
Make the most of the now you will be forever dead
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The past is behind us and the future ahead
And the now is all that does matter as has often been said
And it is true you learn more from life than any book you have read
Make the most of the now you will be forever dead
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Clara the old hill that ever looks down
On Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra and Millstreet Town
Inspired long deceased writers over decades of time
To idolize it in their stories and rhyme
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Far south of the countryside west of the Town of Millstreet
Every day of my life some new challenge to meet
My physical prime many Seasons ago
And time that rusts iron has become my foe
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For some of us there may not be tomorrow and for everyone there is a final day
Death it is for every air breathing life form and also for humans only true to say
Our journey in life it does have an ending on our existence time does tick away
Time eventually becomes everyone's master and youth with us does not have a long stay
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A cold wind from the mountains blew across the countryside
Dick was only twelve years old the day his mother died
Two years and six months younger than his kind and loving sister Nell
Who for a year had cared for Ann their mother who had not been feeling well
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The kind and the caring are great people indeed
Though of more of their sort the Human World is in need
They are on the side of the poor and oppressed
And caring for others is the thing they do best
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Real men good at contact sports and different codes of football
And real men are burly and aggressive and tall
And when challenged would prefer to fight than back down
Real men are looked up to on their side of the town
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Respect is a thing that has more than one way
That it has to be mutual seems true for to say
How can you respect one who does not respect you
Of sides to respect there has to be two
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