Francis Duggan Poems

She has inspired artists to sketch her and poets about her to rhyme
Mother Nature lives on undiminished by time
Her rills and streams flow to the river that to the great ocean flow
And her Seasons they come and her Seasons they go,
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I would rather live to be old and die as one of the unsung
Than be remembered forever as one of the young
Who was not allowed for to grow old and gray
When he died under gunfire from home far away
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She has lived in Ferntree Gully a suburb of Melbourne for fifteen years or so
The one from the fields where the Blackwater flow
On it's journey through North Cork to the Atlantic sea
The big floods of Winter she often did see.
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She is in her thirties ten years past her physical prime
This talented poetess addicted to rhyme
Though she does not write for money or love of renown
There is no finer poet than her in the Town.
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I am not without sin so I won't cast the stone
And though certain behaviour in others we cannot condone
For the mistakes we make there is some price to pay
What goes around comes around as some do say.
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Most great cities are built on the Lands of the Indigenous the sinned against and the oppressed
And the truth to us though it may seem bitter is that we live on the Lands of the dispossessed
And the same has happened all around the World in human history dispossession is rife
By so called great warriors many great races have been rendered extinct aggression is part of human life.
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The magpie sings in the bright sunshine of a humid and a warm day
Perhaps he is telling us something that rain is not that far away
For birds do sing in changing weather on a very warm day when birdsong you hear
You know there's a change in the weather that thundery weather is near.
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So nice to walk in the cool of the evening in the mountain park close to the Town
When the roos and wallabies are out grazing a half an hour before sundown
And the temperatures in the low twenties a pleasant 23 degrees
And the blackwoods and she oaks and wattles are soughing in the freshening breeze.
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Rathcoole's Alfie Cooney is no stranger to fame
In Duhallow and beyond his is a household name
The Manager of Rathcoole Rovers is known far and wide
And credit to him never can be denied.
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He tells everyone of his successful life
But he never tells of how he bashes his wife
Or beats his two children to them he is cruel
The family home by fear he does rule.
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