Francis Duggan Poems

He's over forty years beyond his prime day
With silvery hair and gray hairs on his chest
And whilst most his age are sitting and relaxing
And giving their old weary bones a rest
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We all ought to know what is wrong from what's right
But show me what's worth fighting for and for it I will fight
But if we have to kill or be killed in doing so that's another thing
Though the praises of war heroes the majority do like to sing
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They are the first Americans the fact with us remain
Yet from foreign invasion they did not stand to gain
None of them has become U S President strange as that may seem to be
But to be the first Americans is their proud history
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A pleasant Autumn day of wind and sunshine
And yellow leaves depart their trees and fall
To Mother Earth who silently receives them
And wattlebirds on flowering gum trees call.
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The pigeons from the rooftop watch as she shuffles by
And they recognize their food source and down towards her they fly
On the grass margins by the pavement the pigeons mill around
As she opens her paper bag full of grain and spreads it around.
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The times are a changing as Bob dylan said
And expect more changes in the days ahead
Though at the tip of the iceberg as change goes one might say
Major changes in our environment from us not far away
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Of living life we stress and worry till the Reaper of lives seals our fate
For to die is part of our life's destiny and with destiny we have a date
The greatest of us Humans are mortals but then I ask you what is great
The poor who struggle to provide for their families their lives should we not celebrate?
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P M Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous Stolen Generation was so long overdue
Those who will tell you otherwise to a fair go not true
Children forcibly removed from their parents just because of their race
The wounds still only healing of an Australian disgrace
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'Tis easy to be nice to others when things are going your way
And 'tis easy for to smile at them and for to wish them a good day
Life it is treating you kindly and you are a very lucky one
A reason for you to be happy when all is said and all is done.
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The rainbow lorikeets make their nest high up in hole in trunk of tree
In old gum or wattle or blackwood maybe
Or any old tall tree with a cavity
To nest in hole runs in their family.
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