Francis Duggan Poems

Hibernia's wild shores i may never more see
Since i have left Irelandbut Ireland has not left me
Though i have not seen it for years and from there live far away
In my visualizations i visit it often sometimes every day
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The lakes and dams low in water and the countryside brown, bare and dry
And not a rain cloud in the blue and grey sky
The creeks flowing at a trickle and bone dry every drain
The bare thirsty earth it is crying out for rain
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Quite bored and feeling sad in his way of life
Not happy with his demanding adult children and his overbearing wife
A grandfather in his mid fifties Bored John his nickname
For his prolonged dark moods The whole World he does blame
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We learn as we live from life every day
And we never stop learning only true to say
And every day from life we learn something new
The lessons of life are never of the few
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John Howard Australia's ex Prime Minister who likes to refer to socialist views as begrudging mentality
That their thinking belong to narrow minded poverty
Though he has not been in Parliament for many a day
Like many ex politicians he likes to have his say
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Born in Bordertown a Town in south Australia's countryside
Australia's twenty third Prime Minister recently died
On his eighty ninth year he lived a long life
Survived by Blanche Dal'puget his second wife
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On the ladder of success you may have climbed far
But you are not as great as you think that you are
To the summit of success you are far from the top
And it is harder to climb than it is for to drop
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I have said it in the past so many a time
I am just one of those people who loves penning rhyme
I enjoy nothing better than scribbling away
Adding to my numbers of rhymes every day
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There is a bit of a difference between good and great
Though in some ways to each other they does relate
And there is a bit of a difference between friend and mate
And there is also a difference between Nation and state
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Turned the dark brindled stag-hound of years only two
To hunt and kill wildlife he was bred to do
And what stag-hounds are good at Turner was too
But unfortunately he chased and caught and killed a protected species a kangaroo
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