Francis Duggan Poems

The Seasons pass quickly seems only like yesterday
That i heard the corncrakes in meadows far away
Their rasping calls could be heard in the Summer night
In the long grass of the meadows in the faint moonlight
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In the quiet of a Spring evening in a field by the River Finnow
In fancy i can hear the soft lowing of a cow
When the nesting birds sing in the greenness of May
In the place where i was raised in from here far away
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No Gaelic Football team in Ballydaly today
Though memories of what was slow to fade away
They did have a good team in Seasons long gone
But i bet the hope for a team in Ballydaly in Tommy Tucker lives on
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I am just an aging bloke who with rhyme words likes to play
But for my rhyming efforts i do not receive any pay
Some tell me at rhyming i should call it a day
But what i enjoy doing why should i give away
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I care not what others of me have to say
As long as they do not lie about me in any way
They do not pay my bills for me or buy me food and wine
And their opinions on me is their business and their business cannot be mine
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A beautiful and intelligent woman who is known Worldwide
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mogadishu's pride
So tall and so graceful with a charm of her own
Her life story amazing and her legend has grown
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One to wealth and fortune and adulation and fame
And one to poverty and obscurity no two life's journey the same
A journey one day that for everyone does end
Human life is not forever why otherwise pretend
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On Lake Cartcarrong at Winslow water birds in numbers abound
In the Moyne Shire of south west Victoria bird watchers come to there from many kilometers around
To watch water birds there in their hundreds in the quiet of the Winslow's countryside
Bordered by reeds and lots of cover for birds from predators to hide
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In some village, town or city your life's journey began
Where you grew to a woman or grew to a man
Though some where they spent their young years in did stay
Others from their first home-place are aging far away
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A baby girl born to privilege and wealth and fame
Charlotte Elizabeth Diane is her name
Born to be a princess by birth circumstance
And the gift of life it is only by chance
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