Francis Duggan Poems

I first fell in love with Mother Nature as a boy in old fields far away
In time going back more than five decades and i still do love her today
The creator of flora and fauna she takes every life she does give
She never does cease to amaze me her i will love for as long as i live
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Far from the noisy streets of the big town
The creek from the mountains does wind it's way down
Through flat shrubby paddocks on it's sea going way
It babbles all night and it babbles all day
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The gap between the haves and the have nots is growing wide by the day
And that does seem a sad thing for to have to say
So many must try to sleep without shelter tonight
In a World where some do have too much this doesn't seem right
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The yellow eyed currawongs the dark birds of rain
They call out karrawang again and again
And rain clouds are gathering in the gray sky
In the depths of winter in Mt Dandy in july
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You never stop rhyming to me she did say
What you so like doing why should you give away
Just carry on rhyming for as long as you can
And live till you die as a rustic rhyming man
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In my dreams i do hear it the old mountain rill
Babbling to the river down the field by the hill
When the hawthorns are in their white blooms of the May
And the wildflowers do bloom in the fields far away
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It is in the babe before the babe learns to crawl
The need for recognition it is in us all
We all do need a boost to our self esteem
Recognition can do wonders for us it does seem
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Long before most of diurnal wildlife from slumber awake
In the mountain wood two hours before daybreak
The loud unmelodious cackling of the kookaburras one does hear
Though some distance away they do seem rather near
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When he said poets as ever in the few
He told me something i already knew
Insightful wisdom poets with others do share
It is a pity indeed that they are so rare
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He can be verbally insulting since that can be his way
But it does take all kinds as some are known to say
His is the loudest voice in the bowls club
And his volume is no less at the local pub
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