Francis Duggan Poems

Young people in the Village swimming pool
Their laughter carrying in the freshening breeze
On such a warm and a humid day
A high tis said of 34 degrees.
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In 2007 there's a new beginning and there is great hope for the year ahead
And the World may be a better place to live in and far less people who mourn for their dead
The murdering and the maiming cannot last forever and peace for us cannot be that far away
One can only hold fervent hope for the future and a better World to live in for the youth of today.
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If there's a God that God is for everybody and in every good person that God you will find
And if there's a God that God is not judgemental but understanding very wise and kind
The fundimentalists say that their God is a true God and those who pray to other Gods to false Gods pray
The true God than their God must be far kinder a far superior God in every way,
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Another warm day in the height of Summer and even warmth in the freshening breeze
And no talk of a cool change in the weather forecast a high today of 32 degrees
El Nino is around the thirsty fellow sucking up every dropp of moisture he can find
The water levels in the town reservoir are steadily
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The men who built this City at rest forever lay
They worked hard for to support their wives and children and they earned their every pay
They are the unsung heroes and they lived it the hard way
And we owe them for the prosperity that we enjoy today.
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They are out there on the street their bugles blowing
Though they do not have much to celebrate
It is the grog that causes them to revel
Their own nausea for tomorrow they create.
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The poet is a singer his songs are in his heart
Yet in his own community not seen as an integral part
In the age of the celebrity he does seem out of place
And even in his Hometown his is not a well known face.
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Goodbye to the hard working fellow he worked hard in his working life
He now rests in the town graveyard in the grave he shares with his wife
They had their rows, raised seven children but together in peace they now lay
Their grandchildren now have young children and life it goes on as they say.
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We hear of successes and failures but it all comes to nought in the end
But as a human being it does matter if to someone in need you're a friend
By giving in ways we are receiving and if you can help someone in need
Then you've made your day a big success by performing a very good deed
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For World peace and harmony it has been an awful year
From the Cities of Iraq of death each day we hear
To invade other Countries is always a mistake
And gives rise to death and suffering and grieving and heart-break
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