Francis Duggan Poems

Though fond memories of the what was i do retain
Perhaps i will never see the Boggeraghs again
Or walk in the old fields when the soft winds of Spring blow
When the cock pheasant in the rank rushes does crow
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Pay no heed of what others of you say for you have proven to be good enough
You keep hanging in there though the going on you is tough
You have been homeless at fifteen and lived rough on the street
At twenty the toughest challenges in life you have happened for to meet
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Boy George was a pop legend of the nineteen seventies the lead vocalist of the band culture Club
He remains a hero to many including Joe who drinks beer at the local pub
On Saturday with a few beers in he sings a Boy George song or two
He remains loyal to his singing hero a thing every loyal fan always do
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Some birds sight unseen by their song one can tell
And one bird by his whistling that is known quite well
Lives in the fringe of the woodland in the sparsely treed bush
The bird known to many as the gray shrike thrush
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Where the weather never gets too warm or cold or too cool
The beautiful old City of Warrnambool
That can boast of visitors from Countries Worldwide
Who travel on tourist coaches from Melbourne to the Premier City in south west Victoria's coastal countryside
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After escaping from a detention center on Christmas Island at the bottom of a cliff found dead
His past had been a tragedy he could not face years of detention of him ahead
Fazel Chegeni an Iranian Kurdish refugee
Of torture and imprisonment he felt he would never more be free
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On looking back the Seasons that time does go quickly happens to be so
Pat Duggan left Claraghatlea five decades ago
He went off to New York for a new start in life
Where he married Lisheen born and raised Kathy Looney his soul mate and wife
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Majority rule the ancestor of democracy
In Australia does not suit the asylum seeking refugee
The children of asylum seekers to be returned to Nauru by a high court decree
Of a life of incarceration they may never be free
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Us humans are mortals and little else more
And few can expect for to live to the age of years of four score
The longest lived human life in time not a long span
On average a few years more for a woman than it is for a man
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In the cemetery in Rathmore his last remains lay
From where he was born and raised not that far away
The seeds of good karma in his life he did sow
John Cronin a good man that i once used to know
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