Francis Duggan Poems

It is nice to see him honored in such a way
As he lived as a good person in truth one can say
In the Liscarroll Donkey Sanctuary a plaque to honor his name
Dennis O' Sullivan does deserve his own slice of fame
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In his balding head silver gray hair
The old bloke who sleeps in his wheelchair
In truth of him quite true to say
That he has known of a far better day
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We learn something new about life every day
As we never stop learning it does seem this way
And the more we learn of life the more we come to realize
That of it we know little is this a surprise?
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Many materialistic people do lack in empathy
Beyond their own needs they have no wish to see
They say of the poor for being poor they only have themselves for to blame
That poverty ought not to be humanity's shame
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On this Australia Day of National pride
The sun shining bright on the brown countryside
And a humid warmth in the freshening breeze
That sough in the branches of the taller trees
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The big dark brown parrots known to most as yellow tailed black cockatoos
Though some do refer to them as the weerloos
In small flocks distinctive from other parrots in every way
Birds i do see often though not every day
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He will not be going back to the old country town
Where the creek from the foothills in waters of brown
Babbles towards the big river towards the sea far away
It flows on forever by night and by day
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In Kathy Baulch's House in Yarpturk every Wednesday the Wednesday Whistlers do meet
With the best in Victoria south west as musicians they could compete
Musicians come to Yarpturk from many miles away
And so enjoyable to hear the old tunes they do play
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It is warm today over thirty degrees
And the cattle are sheltering in the shade of the trees
Out of the sun where it is a bit more cool
In the brown and bare Moyne Shire coastal countryside close to Warrnambool
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Though the legends of literature their legends do grow
Who is or is not a good writer i hardly would know
Since i am one who does not have a literary degree
Of writers and writing why do you ask me?
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