Francis Duggan Poems

Most of us have our good times and tough times and days when we border on despair
Of ever again feeling happy and tell ourselves life is unfair
But in time happiness does return to us life has it's many an up and down
And friends you do not have in plenty if you are the sad sack of the town
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In fancy i can hear the robin singing on a sunlit leafy alder tree
In my thoughts today he lives near me and him i often hear and see
The past i did not leave behind me from a far place i brought it with me
To grow old far south of my first home-place in life became my destiny
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Have you ever felt so lonely as you fought to fight back the tears
When you thought of friends and family members that you had not seen for years
Some of them with life's departed and in the flesh never more to see
Often times our fondest memories can feel sad as sad can be
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In some Countries it is a crime for people to live as gay
The people who are not responsible for the over-population of the Human World of today
Discriminated against for their sexual preferences which ought to be a basic human right
To live as equal to all others for them does seem an uphill fight
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The high paddocks green in Springtime in the Summer does look brown
On the narrow mountain roadway that leads to Wonthaggi Town
Way back in the pre pioneering days on those old hills were many trees
Where Australia's first people lived and hunted and had their corroborees
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A native of Warrnambool where she is well liked and widely known
The lovely dark haired Lilli Wilkinson in a class of her own
And looking quite well for one in years of ten with three score
The Human World of her sort is in need of far more
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In the Syrian civil war one hundred thousand people reportedly have died
And thousands badly injured and thousands of homes destroyed
And in Lebanon one million Syrian war refugees
Of war and it's brutality never any good memories
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The past in the forever but the memories live on
Of the good times i knew in decades long gone
When i was a boy many decades ago
Long before time on my body did become my foe
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Most people have their own worries or so it would appear
And of your life's problems few do wish for to hear
When you are in trouble few for support on whom you can depend
At such a time you do come to know of your true friend
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In Ballarat off of Pleasant Street by Lake Wendouree
The familiar calls of the magpie larks the birds known to some as pee wee
From the pee wee sounding intermittent calls that they are known to make
Near where the female black duck are quacking on the waters of the lake
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