Francis Duggan Poems

She has great natural talent one who is born to write
And in The Starlite Cafe I do visit her site
Her name is Grannyrosie with words she has a way
And poets are born and not made some have been known to say.
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He is in his late sixties one might say getting old
Though the story of his life's journey it may never be told
Yet for one of sixty seven he looks fit and okay
He jogs before his breakfast a few miles every day.
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I've never once seen them on land though from the shore I see
Them with folded wings from dizzy heights diving into the sea
And then they rise out of the waves and upwards again fly
These hunters of the ocean who stalk their prey from the sky.
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Money can buy you almost anything it can even buy you time
Bruno Grollo the billionaire Melbourne builder and his wife both well past their prime
Are in China receiving anti ageing stem cell treatment in their quest for a second youth
Those who deny that money is not important are only denying the truth.
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Every Sunday she is in church praying and singing hymns to God
And in her prayers she asks her God to remember the hungry and the downtrod
And to take care of our soldiers who fight in an awful war
Against those awful people in a Land from here so far.
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The Government Ministers in some third World Countries from the people they govern they steal
They lead the high and the good life whilst millions hunger for a decent meal
On internet scams they cheat others to distribute their millions into a dubious foreign bank account
They sow for themselves the seeds of bad karma and their greed for them to nothing will amount.
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We are ruled by self centred rednecks on the face of the World a dark mole
They control most of the World's finances the people who don't have a soul
They live in their own narrow circles and though money speaks every language some say
Whilst them and their families and few select friends grow wealthier the poor grow poorer by the day.
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Our so called Liberal Government are Liberal in name only
As the concept of liberality they do not embrace
They are old style fifties conservatives
The name of liberal with them seems so out of place.
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One does grow tired of hearing small town talk another name for idle chatter
Of Local gossip and Local news things that hardly seem to matter
In the much bigger World out there where everyone's your rival
Where people compete with each other for jobs and for personal power and even for survival.
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She is quite scared of bigger spiders even at the sight of one with fear she scream
But otherwise she is a tough one we all have our phobias 'twould seem
Some Human Beings are far more dangerous than spiders though she doesn't see it that way
Even the most dangerous of spiders have seldom ever killed Humans they go after much smaller prey.
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