Francis Duggan Poems

Money is quite important of that there is no doubt
Of Russell Crowe and his beautiful and young new love so much written and spoken about
Wealthy celebrities like he is beautiful young women wish to know
Out of money and fame even love is known to grow
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The fellow so many people do admire
Jim Doukas the famous Mayor of the Moyne Shire
With the prestigious office he holds he does not get carried away
His type nowadays rare this does seem fair to say
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How come any deceased person has not come back to tell
Of the existence of a universal heaven and hell
Is life for the soul after bodily death just a fallacy?
Lack of proof of such has made a Doubting Thomas of me
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In fancy i can hear the brown lark in song
Above the spiritual home-place of the Bunurong
South Gippsland's first tribe the people of the Dreamtime
They have become the legends of story and rhyme
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There is to be a road race in Duhallow's Millstreet
In memory of the late and great Willie Neenan he was the Parish greatest athlete
More than sixty years his athletic career did span
The amazing Willie the legendary man
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The styles and genres of writing keep changing over time
But poetry in English seems only half dressed without rhyme
And though modern poetry is now the in thing
Without rhyme there would be far less songs to sing
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That most of us have our hard times why otherwise pretend
And when in financial difficulties then you do need a friend
It is at such a time that you know who your friends are
And none of them may be of the group you drink with at the public bar
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The harsh calls of the black duck the soft quacks of the drake
And the black swans are bugling on the waterlogged wetlands by the lake
And the cries of the lapwing carrying in the breeze
On a cool though dry evening in late May of around sixteen degrees
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The fellow so many people do admire
Jim Doukas the famous Mayor of the Moyne Shire
With the prestigious office he holds he does not get carried away
His type nowadays rare this does seem fair to say
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That we are born to die i know this much is true
But what is life about i would not have a clue
From life's beginning to the end there is joy, laughter, tears and pain
And in life one person's loss can become another person's gain
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