Francis Duggan Poems

Your stories mate I've heard you tell before
About those high green fields of Claramore
And about your Town of Millstreet far away
That is what 'Aussie Dave' to me did say.
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In sunlit park beside the sea a seven year old boy
Chased after seagulls up and down and chuckled loud with joy
They let him get so near to them but seagulls are too wise
And they flapped their wings and flew up to the safety of the skies.
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The parks and gardens look greener from recent Summer showers
And the butterflies flit around the sunlit flowers
And in the blue sky just a few patches of gray
So good to be living on such a fine day.
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In all of our lives the changes have been happening the Mayan calendar says the end not far away
Another Country bombed more displaced people and the World keeps getting smaller every day
Have the so called Super Powers the right to destroy our Planet and in so doing inflict suffering and pain?
By trying to destroy the Earth ourselves we'll only destroy
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Sitting on a rock in Porth Cele beach
Listening to the sea birds screech
Against the rock the wild waves splash
And on to the strand the tide it dash
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It's May and the hawthorns are in bloom
Covered in their fragile blossoms of attractive white
The flower filled meads scent of a sweet perfume
And thrill the nostrils with Nature's delight.
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Gabhairin Reo old Irish name for male snipe
A songless bird one of the silent type
A long billed bird that dwell in places poor
Rushy wet meadow and the marshy moor.
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Events of the day still keeping me from sleep
What secret does the silent forest keep?
And still the voice is ringing in my ear
And ghost of Sherbrooke forest I still hear.
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Egypt egypt in woodland every day
At once so near and then further away
Egypt egypt and then brief bubbling song
I know that bird to whom that voice belong.
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The noisy miners chirp in sunburnt parkway by the sea
And lorikeets are noising as they fly from tree to tree
The scaly breasted and the rainbow keets from gum to sheoak fly
A blaze of dazzling colours for to captivate the eye.
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