Francis Duggan Poems

Though you were not the winner you gave of your best
And you went down with honour on your greatest test
To lose on the day was something you did not choose
But for one for to win another has to lose
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From human dwellings never far away
House sparrows are birds one does see every day
In city and town parks and urban and suburban street
In their ways quite cheeky they are not shy or discreet
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Us humans are guilty of an environmental crime
We have been polluting our Earth Mother over decades of time
To the future generations of human beings we are not leaving a legacy of joy
On abusing our Earth Mother our own selves we will destroy
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In high Claramore wood from here far away
The wild birds of song they are singing today
The blackbirds, robins, finches and thrushes on song
The creatures that to Mother Nature belong
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Though some of you do not have nice things to say
For as long as you do not harm anyone in any way
Just do your own thing as you always do
And ignore what those negative have to say of you
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So many live their lives in their narcissistic way
The look at me people in the Human World of today
Their three favourite people are me, myself and I
This is how they will be until the day they do die
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A rhymer for more than a four decade span
I have been told by some I am a bitter old man
In some of the things in written words I do say
That I look at humanity in a negative way
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Great men and women to life have come and from gone
But no matter who comes or goes life does go on
That in everyone is replaceable the truth does remain
Like somebody's loss becomes another's gain
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Some of the best things in life to view are monetary free
The beauty in Nature we do not pay to see
Her beauty is all around some of us every day
Even from urban people Nature's beauty not far away
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I remember Johnny Keeffe in his physical prime
Though this is going back many decades in time
As a young man he was handsome and athletic and tall
And for Millstreet and Cork he played Gaelic Football
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