Francis Duggan Poems

In south west Victoria a rainy start to the new year
But the flute of the magpie so pleasant to hear
In Koroit Town on the streets few people to be seen
On a quiet enough start to the year twenty fourteen
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Physically well for one in his early eighties without an ache or pain
Old Davy is a man who does never complain
The passing of time may have left him balding and gray
But he is happy to make the most of every day
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For our every mistake in life some price to pay
And we learn as we live as some do like to say
And life has a new lesson for us every day
The great educator it does seem this way
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In fancy i hear the male snipe in his aerial courtship display
With wings and tail make goat like sounds on a calm night in May
Above the moonlit bogland the memories with me stay
That followed me across the World from places far away
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Hibernia for Ireland was it's original name
Which translated means 'Place Of Winter' from the Romans it came
When they arrived from Britain a nearby shore
They came saw and left and to there returned never more
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You may think your past is in the forever gone
But the memories down the decades do follow you on
And for as long as the gift of memory you retain
In your mind with you memories of your past will remain
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A hard old World to live in where it is each to self and own
Where from over swollen egos false legends are grown
We are now in the age of the me, myself and i
But only memories of true greatness outlives the graves of death and all others do die
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Girls will be girls and boys will be boys
And where there are crowds of people there is lots of noise
We are the noise makers of the twenty first century
And this includes you amongst others and me
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In Tooreenbawn in Millstreet in Duhallow he raised his family and lived for most of his life span
Clement Kelleher was a well liked and a well known man
Predeceased by Sheila his loyal and beautiful wife
In her he did find the great love of his life
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I cannot say in life i have been there and done that
Though i have worked on pipeline crew in and near Ballarat
And in the Yarra Ranges i have lopped and felled tall trees
Though for such work one does not need any uni degrees
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