Francis Duggan Poems

What matters if you've never known success
If others you cannot seem to impress
Since success and failure eventually lost in the sands of time
To try and fail can never be a crime
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Long before humans built boats for to sail on the seas
And that is going back in time many centuries
Hundreds of centuries longer than written human history does span
The question asked what it takes to be a man
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Though many will tell you that it isn't so
'Tis far harder to make a good friend than a foe
In your down times a person on whom you can depend
To offer you the support of a kind and caring friend.
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If I said I'm a poet I'd be telling a lie
A rhymer I'll be till the day that I die
I commenced writing rhymes in my physical prime
And I am one who has penned many a rhyme
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They are well known travellers of the big World out there
A person from Ireland one could meet anywhere
From the North to the South Pole from Timbuctoo to Rome
They travel to places a long way from home.
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For the best things in life money we need not pay
The beauty we see in Nature every day
To look at and to admire is completely free
And it does not have an equal would you not agree
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A daughter of Denis and Elly Murphy of green and high Claramore
Many years have passed since Nora sailed for Australia's southern shore
For Victoria's biggest City Melbourne where she became John Bredhaeur's wife
Where she gave birth to and raised their children and lived out her long life.
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Between Millstreet Town Bridge and Feirm where my life's journey began
Where I went to school from and I grew into a man
The changes keep on happening there or so I have been told
But everything it changes and we grow frail and old.
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On his life's journey he has never harmed anyone
And his late mother loves him as a proud mother loves her son
But Lady Luck never seems to smile his way
Life's not meant to be easy as some like to say
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On our life's journey we all make mistakes but time ticks on fast
And why worry about what might have been since we cannot change the past
Though some of us our past mistakes known to repeat again
Some lessons of life we should have learned with us do not remain
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