Francis Duggan Poems

Of some of the human vocal moods one does get to learn
Such as forced laughter from the real thing not hard to discern
Forced laughter when heard it is obviously fake
From the real thing it does seem quite hard not to mistake
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The legs that once ran fast are now walking slow
The years on old Andy do visibly show
The National five thousand meters champion fifty five years ago
Time known to rust iron has become his foe
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John Clare wrote his great poem I Am in the Northampton Asylum when he was mentally unwell
A poem that could only be written by a poet living in earthly hell
Yet in the English language a poem that is Worldwide famous today
An outpouring of emotional feelings from one whose mind was in disarray
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You boast of your Country and the color of your National flag
But among your kind this is quite a common brag
The heroes of your praises are not with us today
For their place in glory with their lives they did pay
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Of the praises of brave people so many do sing
And sheer bravery for true love is such an unselfish thing
In the Bataclan Theater in Paris David Nolan shielded his girlfriend Katie Healy from the terrorist gunfire
For his act of bravery born of unselfish true love him one can only admire
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We never stop learning as the wise one does say
And of Nature we learn something new every day
And the more we learn of Nature the more we come to realize
That we know little of her is this a surprise
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With a club or a bar, bomb, gun or knife
All murderers only have the power to take human life
And of any special powers they do certainly lack
As the lives they have taken they cannot give back
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How come from human misdeeds and their acts of shame
It is always old Satan who does get the blame
Such thinking mostly belong to the religious kind
As if Satan does live in every evil mind
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The weather humid and warm over forty degrees
With a sweaty warmth in the freshening breeze
Blowing above the brown paddocks from the sunlit bay
The sun is glowing hot in the blue sky today
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The weather humid and warm over forty degrees
With a sweaty warmth in the freshening breeze
Blowing above the brown paddocks from the sunlit bay
The sun is glowing hot in the blue sky today
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