Francis Duggan Poems

He is in the dark as of yet about his unfaithful wife
And he know absolutely nothing of her adulterous life
On weekday mornings at ten thirty her young lover calls around
Whilst he works on house foundations with his pick axe breaking ground.
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You should feel thankful you are born here
Where you can speak your feelings without fear
You could have been born in Country far away
Where you might have to watch each word you say.
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It has to be coincidence or how can one explain
That whenever I'm in Warburton it rain
So many times I have been out that way
But never as of yet on sunny day.
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Jane Margo she recalls with sadness and she is always close to tears
Whenever she talks of Leongatha she hasn't been back there for years
In 1991 when she was last there she see changes in her Homeplace
And on the streets where she skipped rope and played games her's was not a recognized face.
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At the veterinary clinic by the vet she was put down
It was her last day in Wonthaggi Town
Old Jedder had been getting on in years
Still saying farewell it reduced me to tears.
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Where are they now the miners of Wonthaggi
The mighty men who tunnelled deep for coal?
Some of them resting in their graves forever
And of the youngest of them time is taking toll.
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Minda is one of life's great success stories but she has a terrible story to tell
Of neglect and alcoholic parents her teenage years were years of hell
And though the odds were stacked against her she had the desire to succeed
And like they say 'god loves a trier' and she is a trier indeed.
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He had the wanderlust in him ever since he was a boy
And he wandered far from his Homeland far even as the crow fly
He tramped the highways and byways and up and down many bush track
With his tent and foam mattress and pillow and his doona all
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In the darkness of the morning just before the dawn of day
I hear the magpies singing on the gums across the way
From mid July and onwards they build their nests and sing
And when the magpies are stick gathering you know 'twill soon be Spring.
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A diabetic in her early sixties and she is one you could not help but admire
She raised nine children five of them adopted and her story is a story to inspire
And she is what you'd call an unsung heroine for her there's
never been an easy day
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