Francis Duggan Poems

There are days you have nothing for to write about
And your worth as a writer you question and doubt
Just one of those days you feel mentally tired
That to write anything you cannot feel inspired
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It is said that all things come to those who do wait
That you will know of good times if with hope you keep faith
Life has it's up and down days as the wise one does say
Though good times from you may not be far away
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Where i first looked on the lamp of day
In distance from there i now live far away
Claraghatlea my first home place near the Town of Millstreet
In the green countryside where the waterways meet
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Of war and war heroes we hear of and read of every day
Men who shot at and and were shot and at peace now do lay
But never for people who for peace led the way
As if it was not important what they had to say
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The cool winds of April from the Boggeraghs blow
Above the old fields where the Araglen flow
On towards the Blackwater it winds deep and slow
In the home of the badger and rook and gray crow
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Out there in the paddock in the moonlight
The fox she is calling in the dead of night
Perhaps in heat and searching for a mate
She does need a male with for to copulate
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The past now is history for you and for me
We only have memories of what used to be
At midnight this evening today will be gone
And time as ever does keep on ticking on
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I am just an ordinary fellow with a mind not free of sin
But the god i do believe in is known as the god within
Yet i do have the feeling that this god is far from me
Such a god not in the cynical who look at life negatively
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She often chased but never caught a hare in Con The Master's bog
She was quite a canine brown Pudsy the dog
Pudsy a hairy farm dog too slow to catch a hare
But to catch one no effort she ever did spare
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You are feeling quite a bit down lately for nothing is going your way
The boss of the factory you work in has refused your request for a raise in pay
With a wife and two children to support and your house mortgaged to the bank
It is never easy to feel happy when you are low in the social rank
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