Francis Duggan Poems

To those whose word is their bond great credit is due
Since to their higher selves such people are true
They do live by honour and others never deceive
As living honest and truthful in their dealings they believe
...

Whether they live in Paris or London or New York or Rome
Most migrants refer to where they were born in and raised as home
Or anywhere else in the big World out there
Home to most migrants is always elsewhere
...

I have had a good innings and I have a nice wife
And if I die tomorrow I will have had a good life
I am not financially wealthy or I am not in poverty
I thank you life you have been quite good to me
...

Narcissism to love of self does not belong
It is love of self gone mentally wrong
Yet narcissistic people nowadays are not rare
People of their own needs who are only aware
...

Though the night is calm and quite dry it does look like it will rain
For the tiny frogs are singing in every pond and drain
Though in their breeding Season of August of the year
When they are at their most vocal you know that rain is near
...

In the sunny blue sky just a few patches of gray
For late August in late Winter it is such a beautiful day
The coastal countryside looking so green after the recent rain
With such splendid weather it is so hard to complain
...

What is life but a journey through time that does end
Where everyone you meet does not become your friend
Where not every day for you is a happy day
Earthly Utopia from most people seem far away
...

The woman he loved would not become his wife
She married a man far wealthier than he is for a better life
Joe in his seventies is single today
And time on him is showing he is balding and gray
...

It is true that most literary critics as writers never make the grade
And that true writers are born and cannot be made
But it is the literary critics who does have the say
On who is to become a wealthy and famous writer of today
...

You only can live to be the best you can be
But who is successful to you may not be so to me
Suppose most of us see others in our ways differently
And even those with similar opinions on some things disagree
...