Francis Duggan Poems

The magpies are warbling on the sunlit trees
Their music is carrying in the evening breeze
That blow from the sea through the park by the bay
It is such a beautiful December day
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When i want to see beauty i need not go far
Do not even have to go for a drive in my car
Just a walk to the park and there i do see
The beauty in Nature everywhere around me
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The now for us is all that does matter in the dying hours of twenty sixteen
Tomorrow will be the dawn of a new year and today a memory of what has been
Tonight people will be celebrating in towns and cities Worldwide
But the poor will not be celebrating since they are at the wrong end of the social divide
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Those who love are lucky people it is a rare gift they possess
In a human world where billions of people compete for material success
To give love without asking for love in return is quite a rare gift indeed
The human world better for them in it of their sort humanity of more in need
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I have never been to utopia far away from earthly hell
But of life stories like all others i have many for to tell
Of the good and not so good times i have met along life's way
And each dawning i do wake to brings me nearer to my last day
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Every time he thinks about her his eyes well over with tears
Time has not fully healed his sorrow though she has been dead for years
She died in a motor car accident more than three decades ago
With their dark haired three years old daughter Jenny of eyes as blue as ripened sloe
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Age does weaken body and mind like age does weaken the old tree
All we do have are the memories of the long gone used to be
The biological clocks are ever ticking few things in life ever last
At the very stroke of midnight today will be of the past
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I am not one of the high achievers in life you have been my greatest win
Every time that you are near me i feel love bubbling within
Loving you a marvelous feeling that in words i cannot explain
I hope that until death we will be together and in my life you will remain
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You can make a better Human World to live in by becoming a better you
If you are always kind to others and to your higher self keep true
If you help one in need of your help without expecting reward or pay
Then you are sowing the seeds of good karma since life it does work in this way
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In their lifetimes they knew of local renown
And memories of them today live in people in the town
Though silence and darkness where they now do lay
They live in the minds of their descendants today
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