Francis Duggan Poems

Though con people use it for to mask their guile
People do seem to warm to the one who can smile
But the genuine smilers are becoming rare
Of stories of charming con-men we are all too aware
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I am one of those blokes who with words like to play
One addicted to rhyming I rhyme every day
Anybody can rhyme with that most would agree
It comes easy to you and it comes easy to me
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Jack murphy was an old citizen of Millstreet and sad to read that he has passed away
He was a man who worked hard for a living and respect to others he did always pay
For many decades he did live in Church Street and in his lifetime he made many a friend
So many miles of road he walked on after cattle and in Inchaleigh his life journey did end
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Compared to most their range is a small range Though within their range in numbers they abound
Slightly red under throat their white breast feathers soiled from digging up bulbs from the ground
They are known as long bill corellas they nest high in hole in a tall tree
In paddocks in South Western Victoria in large flocks one often them does see
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The more comments online poets receive the higher the ratings they command
That the big egos need for to be fed should not be hard for to understand
With those who say good writing does stand on it's own merits I for one can only agree
Soliciting for comments for higher ratings does seem so egotistical to me
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A full moon does silently creep it's way across the starlit sky
And the flute of the magpie I hear on this cool Winter night in July
He does not sing for the love of song he sings to defend territory
Whilst most others birds are asleep he pipes high on a wattle tree
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You can only live to be good as you can
For to be a good woman or to be a good man
And do unto others as you'd like them do unto you
To live as a good person is all you can do.
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In quite broken English to me she did say
Me do come from China from here far away
Me an exchange student me only nineteen
In Australia this big Land so much to be seen
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They love it when their admirers to them drink a toast
The celebrities those who do need fame the most
You never will become the best in the town
If you are not one who does crave for renown
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Cannot understand a word she does say
Yet she is so clever in her baby way
She crawls around the kitchen floor
And opens every cupboard door
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