Francis Duggan Poems

When Sliabh Luachra's Nuala Murphy married Duhallow's Denis Taylor she was in her glorious prime
She then became Millstreet's finest this is going way back in time
But by a recently taken photograph of her time has not become her foe
She retains most of the beauty that she had decades ago
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Above the rushy fields where the waterways meet
In the countryside just west of the Town of Millstreet
A tiny musical speck in the clouds of gray
The airborne skylark is caroling today
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About domestic cat size of sturdy build and strong
The dark creatures known to many as the binturong
A viverrid long of body of short legs and rather fat
Some do refer to them as the bearcat
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Time does tick on as the wise one has said
Why be tight with your money you will be forever dead
To a dead one it is a useless tag of renown
To be remembered as one of the wealthy deceased of the town
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Those who treat human life as to be taken cheap
The karma they do sow one day they must reap
What goes around comes around as the wise one does say
In life the Karma we sow we have to reap one day
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Though i know that my turn must come for to die
If i said i did not fear death i would be telling a lie
And i am only stating what is obviously clear
That it is only the fear of death that i do fear
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Far bigger than they look they act in this way
Small men with big egos i see every day
They walk with a swagger when out on the street
And they never feel out of place where the big egos meet
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The increase in the Worldwide population and human greed out of control
On the Earth that feeds us is taking it's toll
And add to this Worldwide the weather is acting quite strange
Due to the onset of this thing known as Climate Change
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Though many with what i say on this with me would disagree
A better World to live in depends on you and me
And on everyone else every woman and man
That each individual can make the World better to live in they most certainly can
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Though many with what i say on this with me would disagree
A better World to live in depends on you and me
And on everyone else every woman and man
That each individual can make the World better to live in they most certainly can
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