Francis Duggan Poems

People from Aubane and other parts of Millstreet Parish on the morning of Christmas Day
Climb to the summit of Mushera Mountain quite a daunting task one has to say
For those who sponsor them for their favorite charity for this credit in heaps they are due
To climb Mushera in the depths of Winter to a cause one would have to be true
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Rebecca is seven years old
With light brown eyes and locks of gold
She says when she grows up that she will be
A mum to children two or three
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The windscreen wipers working to clear the car window of heavy rain
But Hal Roach he had us laughing to Illowa from Castlemaine
The Waterford born comedian beyond his own lifetime laughter does create
In the World of stand up comedy he was an an time great
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The death of a brown hen to most people would not be a tragedy
But Jenny with this would never agree
As she reversed her car in the backyard her favorite pet she did not see
Crushed by the back wheel death did come suddenly
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From the forested countryside of the yellow tailed black cockatoos
The birds known to some people as the weerloos
In Suburbia for the work and the better pay
As a scaffolder on a building site today
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Life is not always easy as some like to say
In neighborhood and family feuds there can be hell to pay
A tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye
As a saying to the revengeful types does always apply
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Everywhere i turn to look i do see
Nature's beauty everywhere all around me
In the southern December on a day of twenty degrees
Butterflies dancing around the sunlit trees
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White butterflies flitting above the flower beds and around the bushes and trees
On a warm evening in December of over thirty degrees
The warm air is full of the buzzing of flies and of bees
And the song of a blackbird is carrying in the freshening breeze
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Disappointment to one with a huge ego is a huge mental fall
But to the humble of mind the biggest disappointment not that big at all
At least anyhow this is how it seems to me
Though others may see it in ways differently
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The pro refugee activists out side of his office on Kepler St does sing and music play
Where is our Government Minister Dan Tehan today
He is not in his Warrnambool office where carol singers sing on the street
Suppose to him there are far more important people than their sort to meet
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