Francis Duggan Poems

My business is not your business and your business is not mine
And when you say what's true of me that does suits me fine
And through the negative means of backbiting some advantage seek to gain
When speaking of others with the truth do remain
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Far south of Claraghatlea fields Nature's beauty to see
Everywhere i turn to look it is all around me
A magpie is warbling on a sunlit gum tree
Proclaiming the borders of his territory
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In his early thirties Giovanni from Milan
One can say of him quite a well traveled man
With Jo Ann his beautiful brown haired Australian wife
With a son of four and a daughter of five their gifts to their union in life
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Sometimes by our words we are known to deceive
But in truth we are only on what we believe
And if your thoughts tell you to do others ill
You most certainly can and you certainly will
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Unconditional love is such a wonderful thing
And of it's praises i always feel happy to sing
But amongst human beings it is so very rare
I am only saying here of what most are aware
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Tomorrow is coming and yesterday has gone
But tomorrow will not dawn for some only Nature lives on
Yes for some this will be their last living day
Make the most of your life for time ticks away
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It does seem like rain is not that far away
A sunless gray sky over Yangery today
June Winter's first month all but over two sleeps from the first of July
And above the green paddocks of Yangery the gray fogs of rain in the sky
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The Summer holidays i did enjoy
In uncle Dan and aunt Mary's farm in Lisnaboy
When i was a young boy going back in time
Many years before i discovered rhyme
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Her shoulder length hair it is silver gray
Mindy is aging in a graceful way
Yet she retains much of her beauty though she is growing old
For one in her mid seventies quite attractive to behold
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Where the dark Merri waters to the Pacific does flow
Far south of the fields of the silver back crow
The magpie is warbling in the dawning gray
Of a cool and a windy June Winter's day
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