Francis Duggan Poems

My literary tastes have not changed with the passing of time
I have always been one with a liking for rhyme
To rhyme is so easy as some like to say
Though rhymers seem so out of fashion today
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Life is tough for many in the big World out there
The homeless and hungry have never been rare
Too many far too many of malnutrition dying or have died
And the gap between the haves and the have nots keeps growing ever wide.
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Mick Kelleher and Phil Cronin from Millstreet live far away
And in Victoria in Australia they may spend their final day
But in their flights of fancy they go back to Millstreet Town
Where Finnow from foot of Gneeves it babbles it's way down
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Your boss is very arrogant some bosses are that way
Another awful day at work you've had a rotten day
You've seriously thought of quitting and handing notice in
Sometimes life can be trying you lose before you win
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I've been in love with Nature ever since I was a boy
And her beauty is for everyone for all for to enjoy
In my every walk in the park her beauty I do see
She truly is amazing that's how she does seem to me
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The very best of people yet few them celebrate
In the minds of the down and out and needy some hope they do create
They never seek the limelight since that is not their way
They help out other people without asking for pay
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Does it really matter one little bit at all
If only her family and her few friends memories of her do recall
She was a nice old lady that much of her I did know
But she did not die easily her end painful and slow
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Their bones are in unmarked graves beneath the earth and sand
But their spirits are still living in their great Southern Land
Their descendants a dwindling minority and it does seem sad to say
That they are ruled by others in the Australia of today
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The chestnut teal are dabbling in the shallows of the lake
The loud quack of the female and the soft whistle of the drake
He is of dark brown and chestnut colouring, dark neck and head of a glossy green
And she is of a mottled gray birds I have often seen
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My true worth as a person I never cease to doubt
I too can be quite selfish though there's plenty like me about
There's more to life I do realize than me, myself and I
This is indeed a simple fact and facts do never lie
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