Francis Duggan Poems

We all cannot be billionaires and we all cannot know of fame
Though most people do wish to be a celebrated name
In most things in life for one to be a winner many have to lose
Though losing is a thing that anybody does not choose
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The unknown God out there many do seem to fear
And of the God within little we ever do hear
The one who allows us to be loving and kind
Is hidden away in the caves of the mind
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It is not meant to be easy as J B Shaw did say
In life we face new challenges every day
This is how it is and it always will be
For some anyway this is how it seems to me
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On the gum trees by the lakes from here far away
The magpies are warbling in Birdsland today
And the wood duck and the black duck on the lakes with their young swimming about
In that haven for wildlife in beautiful Belgrave South
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They are the powerless people condemned by their life's destiny
And by their circumstance of birth to live in poverty
As well as lacking in financial power on election day
Few of them play any part in the electoral process in any sort of a way
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I must be lacking on insight if i can only see
The human flaws in others but not the flaws in me
But in moments of self analysis one comes to realize
That what we dislike in others in ourselves we recognize
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Five years ago successful and an admired one of the town
But things for him quite different now since financially he is down
When he declared bankruptcy his wife left him and with her took their two young daughters such is life as some do say
When in financial trouble you know who your true friends are it has always been this way
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In my flights of fancy i hear and i see
A male pink breasted chaffinch on high branch of leafy birch tree
Singing in the quiet of the evening just before sundown
In a rushy field just west of Millstreet Town
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The wonders of Nature an amazing thing
Migratory waders fly north to breed in the Arctic Spring
And to escape the harsh Arctic Winter fly south again
The mysteries of Nature as a mystery remain
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Since any deceased person i have known has not come back to me to tell
Of the existence of a Heaven or of the existence of a Hell
Of life after bodily death how am i to know
Since of the existence of such anyone has not proof to me for to show
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