Francis Duggan Poems

He's had more than one extra marital affair in his married life
For he is one who often cheats on his wife
On sundays with his wife and children in the church he does pray
Though one of the commandments he does never obey.
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He surely lived his poetry that would be fair to say
And he left Wales as a young man for places far away
He travelled in North America and tramped from town to town
And he started writing poetry on his highway to renown.
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They are cloaked in ambiguity their stories are never clear
From Politicians and the Media believe quarter of what you hear
The masters of deception they operate that way
The bigger fool you must be to believe all they say,
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The tiny frogs sing in the pond and the drain
And out there on the hill in the wind and the rain
The wild fox is barking so distinctive it's cry
And the coldness of Winter is in the dark sky.
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We choose our own friends and we make our own foes
And having said that such is life i suppose
And with our own thoughts our reality we create
And old father time for us never does wait.
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Like the Seasons the legends they come and the legends they go
But the river downland to the great ocean flow
And long after the life from all others have gone
Ageless Mother Nature will be living on.
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In the central Victoria Town of Castlemaine
The currawongs call in the wind and the rain
And this Countryside with lots and lots of rain could do
Much more than heavy showers for an hour or two.
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'Tis said life doesn't exist on the moon or on mars
But is there a planet somewhere in the stars
Where people drive around in big motor cars
And where they have their sing songs and music in their local bars?
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An ordinary bloke with a toothy smile
But absent from his makeup any conceit or guile
The life of the party a pleasure to meet
And one like him does not live on every street.
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I'm one of those blokes who with words likes to play
And i do pen a few doggerels every day
But i no longer do dream of literary renown
I left my dreams back there near old Millstreet Town.
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