Francis Duggan Poems

The President and Monarch to me seem the same
As 'twould seem they only do live for their own fame
With them more than most it is me, myself and I
And their egos will be with them till the day that they die
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Through fields that the overnight frost have left gray
The old Finnow river flows bank high today
Under the river bridge it babbles on down
Through the quiet countryside west of Millstreet Town
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We do look at life one might say differently
And on very few things we do seem to agree
The poets you see as great do not seem great to me
We are very different as different as can be.
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In the World great changes have been taking place
And an uncertain future many people do face
Millions dying of hunger in Lands ravaged by drought
With the spectre of climate change lurking about
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Some of us struggle with our addictions of such I am one who should know
As I am addicted to rhyming my rhymes in great numbers do grow
The stuff I pen not seen as poetry though call it whatever you may
Seven thousand three hundred and rising as I keep writing more every day
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In the quietness of a Summer morning in the sunshine after rain
The rufous whistler in the woodland he is singing once again
And brown butterflies are dancing in the very gentle breeze
Around the shrubs and bushes in the shadows of the trees
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I must go back to the Ranges the Yarra ranges far away
Where the wildborn birds are calling in the high woods all the day
Where the fluting of the butcherbird is carrying in the breeze
That blows across the mountain through the eucalyptus trees.
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Tonight people will welcome the New Year in Countries from here far and near
And there will be much celebrating at the birth of another New Year
At midnight the bands will be playing and the fireworks will light up the sky
And strangers on the street will be hugging and dancing and singing and the buntings and balloons will fly
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There is so much in Nature for to write about
And our value to her I for one always doubt
For she'd be better off without us I speak what is true
And the children of the future must pay for our debts to her overdue
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For his life crosses most others he does blame
And the anger in his heart has taken to flame
Him do not befriend if you possibly can
For he is a hostile and a dangerous man.
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