Francis Duggan Poems

No matter what others of you have to say
Your life is your own and you live it that way
Your praises them you don't need for to sing
You live your own life and you do your own thing
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In the high wood at Birdsland the green bellbirds sing
On a sunny day in Winter two weeks from the Spring
Like fairy bells ringing them one cannot mistake
They sing all day long till darkness from daybreak,
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Physically you feel quite healthy yet you wish that you were dead
Hang on to your life 'tis precious there are better times ahead
We all have our good and bad days that's life as some do say
Though things not going well now for you good times cannot be far away
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Of the highlights of his life to tell he has none
And he cannot boast of the honours he has won
And she is not extraordinary his ordinary wife
The ordinary man leads an ordinary life.
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In old Caherbarnagh you will not find gold
But wealthy people live there or so I've been told
Cash crops in the Fall they don't have for to reap
But the hill farmers there make lots of money in sheep
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In modern poetry there is no place for old style rhyme
'Tis seen as belonging to another time
But such is life as some have been known to say
And rhyme now seen as old fashioned though it did have it's day
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Have you ever been at the door of despair
And to you life has been anything but fair
Bill Boiler has been there many times in his life
In his many struggles with his inner strife.
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I've been adoring Goddess of Nature since I was very young
And I like many others her praises have often sung
Her beauty all around me I see it every day
And in my lowly gift of doggerel respect to her I pay
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Like dark corks amidst the windblown waves they keep bobbing up and down
The moorhens and their cousin coots in the big lake near the town
From water they never venture far they swim and dive for their acquatic prey
They are born to be water birds Nature made them this way
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I cannot even hope to imagine the way that you do feel
Compared to some your problems may seem little but to you your problems are real
Life's journey is not always easy and life's not always fair
And many left to struggle with their black dog of despair.
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