Francis Duggan Poems

No different to us humans in many a way
Other life forms are being born and dying every day
Some of them die at our hands some of them natural predators kill
And some of them die young after falling ill
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I am just one of those who seems tied to the past
But even the best memories of what was in me fading fast
Just like an old tractor parts fading in me
My mind it is not what it used to be
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He is from the big and quiet country where the wild dingoes cry
At night when the moon shines in the starry sky
The home of the short billed corella, wallaby. wombat and roo
And emu, budgerigar, cockatiel and sulphur crested cockatoo
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His bad behavior of late one could never condone
But leave it to the one without sin for to cast the stone
His crime not a bad one not that bad at all
He is for the court for his involvement in a pub brawl
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The weather doesn't seem to bother him be it wet, windy, cold or fine
He jogs for six miles every day come rain, hail or sunshine
A tall thin man athletic looking his balding hair silver gray
Fitness is his addiction or it does seem this way
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Variety and adventure in his life to him are not new
And of nights of sexual passion he has had more than a few
So many young women have come to and gone from his life
But yet to be a father or to have a wife
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Most wild born creatures when they see humans disappear from sight
But in the backyard i put out slices of apples for possums every night
They try to climb up my pants as if i were an apple tree
As a source of food they only see me
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Far from Aubane near Millstreet In Duhallow his first home countryside
Jack Lane is a fellow who is known far and wide
As a historian, writer, editor and publisher he is one famed and known
In Aubane they are proud to claim Jack as their own
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To lovers of Nature demeaning and a put down
Grand old cypress trees needlessly felled in the park of the town
Environmental vandalism for want of a better name
Whoever authorized this must not have a sense of shame
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He covers his baldness in a brown wig the sugar daddy with the big nose
But his fifth wife she is young and pretty one might say she blooms like a rose
A twenty five years old beauty with shoulder length wavy ginger hair
The only reason she is with him is he is a multi millionaire
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