Francis Duggan Poems

The very thought mind appeasing is how it seems to be
Of our calmer moments of peace with harmony
Imagine sitting at a table on the balcony of a cafe overlooking the sea
Alone with your thoughts enjoying coffee or cake and tea
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A place that is sacred to Australia's first race
Moyjil close to Warrnambool is a beautiful place
Overlooking where the Hopkins River into the Pacific flow
Of places to compare with it of only few of i do know
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How nice in the park in the evening sun
To hear children at their games laughing and having fun
Free of the stress adulthood to people bring
The great gift of youth is a wonderful thing
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There are many great people in the World of today
Who to help those in need of helping do go out of their way
Yet good people are not heroes of any town
Never any glory in helping the financially down
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On our very existence on her we depend
And than her we do not have a better friend
Yet we keep on cutting her beautiful old growth trees down
For to build more houses and factories in the town
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Above the sunlit brown paddocks in the blue and gray sky
The dark welcome swallows in pursuit of flying insects fly
For hours on end flying at such a great speed
For aerial predators to catch far too quick and nimble a bird breed
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I have been a rhymer since nineteen seventy three
And everyday the rhymes keep coming to me
My sort are not the poets of the twenty first century
And a rhymer at best is the best i can be
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For the poor in life who never do have a win
It is not a good World for to live in
Born into disadavantage in the poor side of the town
Hungry and homeless at a young age and financially down
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Of flawed leaders such as Trump or Putin i would prefer not to hear
Since all they do seem to offer is fear
Of a nuclear war where millions if not billions of people would die
Those who say power is might believe in their own lie
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Where to many mine it is not a known face
I feel privileged to be living in such a beautiful place
Illowa between Warrnambool City and old Koroit Town
Of south western Victoria a gem in the crown
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