Francis Duggan Poems

A fair go for all people to such I can relate
Whatever be their culture their race, beliefs or faith
Down with rank and class distinction and here's to the fair go
In an egalatarian society peace and harmony would grow
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Goodbye to you dear Megan Gale you have got your fortune made
For being Queen of the Catwalk you have been more than well paid
You retire in your life's prime you won't die in poverty
Still young and very beautiful and set up for life financially,
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The Townland I was raised in is far inland from the sea
And everyone in Claraghatlea I knew and they knew me
But the wander bug was in me for places far away
And I left home when the old fields with December frost were gray.
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No southern right whales at Warrnambool last year
Due to oil exploration near Logan's Beach we hear
For to give birth the females went elsewhere
At Logan's Beach for them too noisy there.
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I penned my first verses at 27 when I was in my prime
In the Fall of 1973 and that's going back in time
Penning has become my addiction I pen more every day
Though from any sort of literary success I do seem far away
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For each of us a last night as well as a last day
And the seconds and the minutes of our lives do tick away
From life we have been learning even before we learned to crawl
But the more we know the less we know we know seems to apply to all
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Many believe when the body ceases to live that the good souls have wings to fly
To that green paradise of eternal life beyond the Universal sky
To a Land of eternal happiness to where only the good to can go
Of the existence of such a World I am not one to know.
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As she sat in her car's driver's seat reading his farewell letter to her she wept her heartfelt tears
The man she love had left her life she had lived with him for five years
He left her for another a few weeks back in the first week of the Fall
And only memories of the love she knew are with her to recall,
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I see Goddess of Nature's creative power
In every blade of grass and every flower
Without her nothing could survive or grow
Yet of her ways so little I do know
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The truth as you see it he does not wish to hear
His negative thoughts are only based on fear
He believes in the propaganda of us against they
Why waste your time in trying to change him if he feels this way
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