Francis Duggan Poems

Life does not go by without some challenge to face
And where sorrow is for laughter there is no space
Poor Mrs Mancini her hair silver gray
Weeps for her dead husband on her saddest day
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Once heard and once seen one cannot get them wrong
Gray butcherbirds known by their bubbling song
The male with dark brown head than the female more brown than gray
They live in the woods from where i live far away
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In the Summer Corpus Christi procession long ago in Millstreet Town
Young girls of the Convent school among others up to the Town Square from the West End slowly walked down
With the warm winds from the mountains in the balmy air
Willie Murphy on his public address system led the congregation in prayer
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If this is the price to pay for peace then peace comes at a huge cost
Every day many innocent lives in wars are lost
Whilst families and friends and loved ones left to weep for their dead
And many years of grieving of them lay ahead
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I have loved Mother Nature even as a young boy
And learning of her ways today i enjoy
And my wonder of her only does seem to grow
Yet so little about her i can claim to know
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As a friend to a friend he said to me yesterday
Perhaps you should give penning of doggerel away
And though you are one with words who likes to play
In rhyme you have said all that that you have to say
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Where mine years ago to all was a known face
Today i would be a stranger to many in my first home place
Claraghatlea a mile west of the Town of Millstreet
Though some of my past friends there today i would meet
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In a Human World where the hungry and homeless are not rare
Where there are so many paupers for every millionaire
For millions of homeless people sleeping rough tonight
Life for them birth to death is an uphill fight
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Fred in his forties like an aging rutting stag
To his pub mates of his sexual conquests in the local does brag
Too naive to see through them since in prudence he does lack
They feign interest on his stories and laugh behind his back
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Gennady Golovkin alias G G G the World middleweight boxer supreme
World champion and hardest puncher pound for pound in the World it does seem
In the middleweight division he has k o'd the best
And he has not yet found to be wanting when put to the test
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