Francis Duggan Poems

She wears heavy makeup and she dyes her hair brown
But Jill she is still the best dancer in town
She never gave birth or never was any man's wife
And dancing it is the great love of her life
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I am only one person with one point of view
Just an average rhymer and my readers are few
Though i do enjoy rhyming and the rhymes i do write
I email them off to an internet site
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Since a wise one said any person is not born to be bad
Oliver Cromwell one of the first war criminals would have had to be mad
To do what he did in Ireland where death and great suffering he did create
Against the poor of that Country his army carried out thousands of unprovoked crimes of hate
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I have outgrown nostalgia for my first home place from here far away
For Claraghatlea in view of Clara where i lived for many a day
For Millstreet and Millstreet Town where i was well known
Many there nowadays would not see me as one of their own
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He wrote the stories, poems and ballads of Australia's bush and countryside
And his World was not a small one Henry Lawson's World was wide
With the bigger World out there his rare talents he did share
But Henry Lawson died a pauper doesn't life seem so unfair
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Men have not learned from war history war today is waged Worldwide
For God and Flag and Country far too many people have died
Far too many wars already waged in the twenty first century
A Human World that's free of conflict i may never live to see
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I have penned rhymes of Mt Rouse and old Penshurst Town
And Warrnambool City a place of renown
Dunkeld, Halls Gap and Hamilton, Hawkesdale and Kirkstall
And dances in Crossley and Illowa Hall
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The fellow who did love the pub atmosphere
I hear Connie Tarrant is off of the beer
Which should make Noreen his devoted wife
Happy to see her man without grog in his life
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Softly spoken and humble in her own quiet way
The local poet laureate with words likes to play
Her metre is perfect her rhyme in the right place
One might say of her she is one of a rare race
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In my lifetime of my inhibitions i may never be free
My number one enemy surely is me
My barrier to any success in my life is of my low self esteem
One can be their own number one enemy it does seem
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