Francis Duggan Poems

I feel happy to wake in the morning and know that i am very much alive
The Reaper's of lives is not looking my way one needs luck in life to survive
And i feel very lucky to be living since many younger and fitter than me with the dead
I only take each day as it comes to me and i never do look too very far ahead
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The judgements of others with me suits me fine
For what they think of me no business of mine
I am what i am this is all i can be
And what others think of me no bother to me
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It never fails to fill my mind with delight
The songs of the magpies on a moonlit Winter's night
At the start of their breeding Season when the Spring is near
Their night territorial piping so pleasant to hear
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The future it surely is the great unknown
And the seeds of it by some in the present sown
Even in tough financial times many survive somehow
The best you can do is make the most of the now
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I was raised in the home to badger and gray crow
Where dark brown water bird dipper with breast white as snow
Sings in the stream that flows to the river down the field by the hill
With babbling tongue that is never still
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He was a great footballer as a young man
But this is going back in years quite a span
Over half of a century quite a long time ago
And time eventually does become everyone's foe
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That most of us need recognition happens to be true
And such should be forthcoming if this is their due
But in a World of self promotion it does seem to me
Not everyone are as valued as they ought to be
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Since i commenced writing rhyming stuff way back in my life's prime
Some four decades of years ago that does seem a long time
I have written near twelve thousand since a lot of rhyming stuff
For forty years a rhymer and for longer a rhyming buff
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He wrote love poems to her the one he called Honey
But she would have liked him better if he had more money
Since love poems could not buy her gin or vodka and dinner
And she consider one short of money a loser and a loser not a winner
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We all have our journeys in life for to follow
And mine it did take me far south of Duhallow
To the home of marsupials and of Nature a wonder
The land known to some as Australia and to some as Down Under
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