Francis Duggan Poems

I am just your average Killer i killed ten mosquitoes last night
Though many managed for to escape me and left me with many a nasty bite
For to lay their eggs my blood they had needed in a pond or an open tank of water nearby
Despite killing some they persisted and buzzing above me did fly
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He does not take drugs, smoke cigarettes or drink wine
And he does not have a beer when he is out to dine
And he does not taste alcohol of any kind
Yet better than he is would not be hard to find
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When I hear the song 'Afton Waters' it author Robert Burns comes to mind
The National bard of his Country Scotland and his equal so hard to find
His songs have lived on through the centuries in Scotland they have Burns day
One can sense the music in his poems with words the great bard had a way.
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Don't try to convince Andrew Bolt he has made up his mind
As an ally of new clean forms of energy him you will not find
The conservative columnist for The Melbourne Herald Sun
At the experts on climate does like to poke fun,
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When John Shaw Neilson sung of his 'Country Out There'
He sung of a beauty so old and so rare
The Countryside around Nhill in Summer so brown
The flat and dry paddocks by the old Mallee Town.
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On the parkland trees in the pale moonlight
The boobook owl calls in the calm of the night
The little birds wake from their sleep and they hear
The voice that to them is the echo of fear,
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For my lot in life my own self i do blame
There is none other i can name
Good judgement is a thing I've not shown
And all of my mistakes are my own.
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The drought has left the stony paddocks looking bare and brown
The Countryside around Mt Rouse and Penshurst rural Town
The thistles are growing plentiful where stones and rocks abound
And signs of Mt Rouse's volcanic eruptions are everywhere around.
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Far from the Cork and Kerry Border and the mountain Countryside
The poets and singers and musicians of Sliabh Luachra are known far and wide
Their legends live on though with Nature they lay
And they are remembered and talked of today.
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By all accounts Brian Burke is a tainted man
With a criminal record he has spent a span
Of time in jail for corruption and fraud
Not the type of person that people ought to laud.
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