Francis Duggan Poems

A stranger to any success or renown
And if I should die far south of old Millstreet Town
It will not matter to me then where my bones will lay
Just leave me with Nature and I will be okay
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After taxes he takes home fifteen hundred dollars a week yet he says not enough
By the way he talks one would swear that he is doing it tough
Yet fifteen hundred a week does seem very good pay
Some people are greedy and mean in a small way
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With me now just a memory but memories with us remain
In the heavy rains of late Winter the female frog lay in the drain
Her eggs like crystal lumps of jelly from which her tadpoles hatched out
And all around their watery home they wriggled all about.
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To the flat and old brown Countryside the Seasons come and go
But she lives far so very far from where the Wannon waters flow
Through places to her familiar on it's journey to the sea
Through a Land that was even old in the Dreamtime of an ancient history.
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He won't be home in Italy for to see the flowers of May
Or hear the wild birds singing in the Woodlands far away
On his many flights of fancy he can hear the robin sing
Though he is getting older with the passing of each Spring.
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On sunday in the park off of the high street
The local tai chi group for relaxation do meet
So pleasant to watch them they seem so at ease
As they move with such grace in the shade of the trees
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No doubt about him he's known a better day
With tints and with hair dyes he covers his gray
Most of his female lovers decades younger than he
That money speaks every language with that one must agree
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He died a true hero but now that he is dead
He cannot hear the nice things of him said
Grieved by his friends, parents and his family
The friend, son and brother they will never more see
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She had turned seventy nine in July of last year
And today she was buried the lovely old dear
She was never a mother or never a wife
And she worked as a nursing sister all of her working life.
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Who can know or say what tomorrow will bring
For the uncertainty of life is an amazing thing
You may even have a big tattslotto win
For anything is possible if your luck is in
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