Francis Duggan Poems

Have you in your nostalgic moments felt quite close to tears
When you thought of your friends of long departed years
Some of them deceased and some showing age decay
And time ticks along as the wise one does say
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I used to daydream that i might be a poet
Or somebody worthy of literary note
But such thoughts in my mind are forever dead
I go into old age as a rhymer instead
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In the old former gold mining town known as Castlemaine
The people who live there always welcome the rain
In Castlemaine and all over central Victoria the climate mostly dry
And that rain is always welcome there this the reason why
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Sometimes there is a lot being said, without a word being spoken 'Ross Altmann'


He raises the frustration in others right to the brink
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In Summer when the sun is out the buzzing of bush flies in the air
And bush flies on your hands and your face and your hair
In rural south eastern Australia in Summer bush flies in huge numbers abound
In town parks and paddocks all day they are buzzing around
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Once seen and once heard his kind you cannot get wrong
The male gray shrike thrush has a beautiful whistling song
Mostly gray brown medium sized birds they range far and wide
Where trees are abundant in the Australian countryside
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He sang Oh Lord I Saw The Light
As if heaven was in his sight
And perhaps he has the inner glow
Though then again of this i would not know
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We are what we are this is all we can be
What i dislike in others i dislike in me
Of the flaws we are born with only death will set us free
With it is to be flawed is to be human would you not agree?
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We are what we are this is all we can be
What i dislike in others i dislike in me
Of the flaws we are born with only death will set us free
With it is to be flawed is to be human would you not agree?
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The happy person is the one that others wish to know
Like a magnet she or he attracts their friends in numbers grow
The happy and smiling person is one even strangers like to meet
They carry joy with them even whilst walking on the street
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