Francis Duggan Poems

If at what they are doing they are well rewarded in pay
Good luck to them for this is all i can say
Everyone for what they do need to be rewarded in some sort of a monetary way
As money is quite important in the human World of today
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Above his evergreen fields of old Lackabawn
He saw many a sunset and many a dawn
Though in all who knew him good memories of him will remain
In the flesh Matty O Riordan will not be seen in Millstreet again
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In the parks by saltwater the birds whistle and sing
In Port Fairy on a beautiful day in the Spring
September has brought us her wildflowers and green
In Nature so much natural beauty for to be seen
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In rhyme words perhaps i have said all that one should say
But what i love doing i cannot give away
For so many years i have been a rhyming buff
Perhaps i have become addicted to penning of stuff
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His hair silver gray it was once nugget brown
The fellow who hails from the far away town
His wife is a local they have been married for forty years
Without children to bring to them laughter or tears
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Life can be a struggle it does seem this way
For many a financial challenge to face every day
Though there are also mental challenges for the privileged few
On saying this is part of living is not saying anything that is new
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You are what you are this is all you can be
I am quoting the old fellow from Knocknagree
His craggy wrinkled face is a familiar sight
In the local pub on a Saturday night
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In the paddocks of Illowa on a September night
A fox it is barking in the moonlight
A wild nocturnal shrill voice that is a fox's own
And a voice of Nature that is widely known
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Despite his fame a down to earth fellow untainted by conceit
Denis Kevans was known as Australia's Poet Lorikeet
A skit used by those who do not like modern poetry since Denis wrote in rhyme
One might say as a poetic rebel the best of his time
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The Poet of Freemount Denis J Foley one of literary note
He was such a marvelous lyrical poet
You read his poems once you will read them again
If you like rhyme the music in his words with you will remain
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