Francis Duggan Poems

Our lives are like our gardens we must reap the seeds we sow
And our past it seems to follow us to everywhere we go
For the wrongs I've done to others to karma i must pay
The Universal Consciousness catches up with us one day
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Visiting their son John and daughter Gillian in Sydney John Joe Daly and Helen his wife
I spoke to them by telephone I've known him most of my life
All of the way from Millstreet in Duhallow ten thousand miles or more
They have made the long and tiring Journey to Australia's sunny shore.
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I live far south of Clara and Claraghatlea near Millstreet Town
Where the Finnow from high Gneeves through the old fields journey down
On it's way to the Blackwater through the green old countryside
And though the clock on my life keeps ticking the memories have not died
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John Twomey was a legend when i was a young boy
And to many in Duhallow his verses brought great joy
Back in the fifties to the sixties some forty years ago
I knew him through his poetry though him i did not know.
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The poets they sing about her the artists her do draw
And she lives independently of human kind and she has her own law
And one of the laws of Mother Nature is we all must die one day
Like every other life form for that is Nature's way
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White butterflies are dancing in the warm evening breeze
And the house sparrows are chirping on the sunlit garden trees
On a warm day in April in the far Southern Fall
Of the Southern Land's four Seasons the most pleasant one of all,
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He was the son of God 'tis said yet him they crucified
And nailed to a timber cross on Calvary wearing a crown of thorns he died
And a similar fate him would befall were he around today
The good condemned to suffer as some are known to say.
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Of holier than thou people I've had my bellyfull
One might say they do talk a whole lot of bull
They do feel superior in their own smug way
It does take all kinds as some are known to say
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On the dry creek bed stands a dead willow tree
The affects of climate change is a sad thing to see
Without sufficent moisture trees eventually die
Those who deny climate change do believe in a lie.
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Hard rock and rap music are things he enjoy
He is a grown man with the heart of a boy
In his early forties a decade past his prime
And already in his greying hair showing the passage of time.
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