Francis Duggan Poems

This is no place for creature such as you
In wired in prison here in Melbourne Zoo
So many miles from home your own Country
Where you hunted and had fun and lived carefree.
...

Though no one may care to read my story
I too had my days of glory
Moments when a glowing pride
Kindled within in me inside.
...

Thomas Hall he was a wandering man
And his restless mind forbid him settle down
And in his brief and wanderlust life span
He became well known in many a town.
...

Young Henry Cunningham out Blackburn way he started on hair clipping
He done the barber on himself and gave his hair good ripping
And then not satisfied with that he scalped Mick his small brother
And young boys always will be boys but pity his poor mother.
...

Underneath the leafy boughs
By the waters of Finnow
On a pleasant eve in May
In a rushy mead in Claraghatlea.
...

I have never met you Megan and it's unlikely that I will
As you live in Mordialloc and I at Clifton Hill
But I know a bit about you going by what your mother say
You are active for an eight year old no rest for mum all day.
...

He clipped horses and sprayed gardens and he earnt his every pound
And he worked all around Duhallow and he was known for miles around
And he drank gallons of porter after short spells on the dry
And we all knew Denny Murray and his jokes we did enjoy.
...

A gale force wind there is no moon tonight
But in the high field I see dazzler light
It's someone lamping rabbits seems to me
Or Jimmy Cotter's ghost who knows maybe? .
...

In this World of great frustration
Brought about by aggravation
People have an inclination
To find comfort in desperation.
...

I left my love in Pine Tree Lane
When hedge was russet brown
I left her in November rain
When leaves were falling down.
...