Francis Duggan Poems

In the media every day sporting stories are rife
But sport has become a diversion from the hardships endured by many in life
Suppose stories of the forgotten few of do wish to hear
It is mostly of life's winners that people do wish to read about seems obviously clear
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In the home of the kangaroo in the Land of the far south
In sky kilometers far from the waterways of the brown trout
The sun shines in a sky of blue and gray
And the nesting birds are singing in the Moyne Shire today
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The sun out and shining though the sky of gray rain clouds not clear
And in the still morning air the bleating of sheep i hear
On the Warrnambool Penshurst road near old Koroit Town
Cars and trucks on the roadway buzzing up and down
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Though time that rusts iron has become your foe
Your past seems to follow you to wherever to you do go
In your flights of fancy memory lane you go down
When you walk on the old streets of your first hometown
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I am from the fields of the silver backed crow
And of hedgehog whose only means of defense is to know
How to roll into a tight ball it's sharp quills sticking out
For dog, fox or cat who attacks it to receive a painful and a bloodied snout
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I have been lucky in life luckier than most one can say
In the beauty i see around me every day
Pink and white blossoms are blooming on the leaf budding fruit trees
And the songs of the birds carrying in the freshening breeze
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His fastest pace nowadays does seem rather slow
The passage of time on old Jimmy does show
The town's best fifteen hundred meters runner fifty years ago
Eventually time becomes everyone's foe
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The one who finds pleasure on verbally putting others down
Is never the most popular person in the town
Such people in their ways are so very small
They have not learned if you do not like someone why bad mouth them at all
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I spent hours of my young years listening to grown men talking of the politics in Ireland's Dail
And of the then three major Irish political parties Fine Gael and Labour and Fianna Fail
As well as arguing about hurling and Gaelic Football
Though financially these things for their lives did nothing at all
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You can make the World better to live in
But to such a thing with yourself you begin
By being kinder to others and helping those of your help in need
For a better World to live in you are planting a seed
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