Francis Duggan Poems

You have lost your nostalgia for the what used to be
Even of the good memories of what was you are finally free
You can only live in the now you have come to realize
The past it has gone like this morning's sunrise
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Good memories remain to her a source of joy
Of when she was the young Rose of old Lisnaboy
When her shoulder length dark hair had a glossy sheen
Some of the bigger World out there since then she has seen
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For humanity not a source for joy
In nuclear weapons created for to destroy
All life forms including humans Worldwide
On the invention of the nuclear bomb for humanity not any sense of pride
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He supports the same football team and he has voted for the same political party all of his life
And he often goes home from the pub and argues with his wife
Ten times a grandfather he sees anyone who believes in change
As one who lacks in conviction and in ways rather strange
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It surely is not a small World after all
The World that we live in is anything but small
There is not one living person who has been to everywhere
Every town, village and city in the big World out there
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In Spring to home owners they can be a pest
When on chimneys they decide to build their stick nest
They do cause a lot of blocked chimneys in May
These medium sized dark corvids with napes of silver gray
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I long for a place of human created noise free
With Nature's own beauty everywhere around me
Free of pollution where birds sing all day
Far from where factory chimneys puff up smoke clouds of gray
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With rhyming words i am one who does like to play
And i add to my numbers of rhymes every day
To write rhymes is easy as easy as can be
Anybody can do it as most would agree
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In leaky boats from Syrian war zones far away
Hundreds of refugees arrive in Europe every day
But to undertake such a dangerous journey one needs luck on their side
And in boats that have sunk many people have died
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So many i knew i will never more meet
The most of them lay in cemeteries of the Parish of Millstreet
Whilst some from Duhallow did die far away
Far from their first home-place their last remains do lay
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