Francis Duggan Poems

For me in it no money or even minor fame
This penning of rhyme is a hungry belly game
I have been writing rhyming stuff since nineteen seventy three
It was my love of rhyming made a rhymer of me
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Back in the mid nineteen eighties before she had children and her hair was light brown
She was the young young Rose of old Castlemaine Town
Now a grandmother in her early fifties she lives in a flat on her own
And her better days in life she is one who surely has known
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For their god they behead innocent people but their god for this do not blame
Since they choose to plant the seeds of their own bad karma and they will die in their own shame
They have lost the right to be called human since such a title to innocent people belong
They must not be mentally balanced their thought process has gone all wrong
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Sean Gallen and family and Anne his good wife
In Millstreet Town spent many years of their life
As proprietors of the Bush Bar at the West End they were well liked and well known
In fact one can say of them they became Millstreet's own
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Overlooking the Town of Maldon on the high countryside
From Mt Tarrengower one can see far and wide
Across miles of countryside not lacking in bushes and trees
On a mild Winter evening in August of around twenty degrees
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In life we never stop learning it does seem this way
And from Nature we learn something new every day
And the more we learn of Nature the more our wonder of her does grow
Yet so little of her ways we can claim to know
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You have heard of the saying laughing your cares away
It is true about laughter it keeps stress at bay
Those who can laugh easily are lucky indeed
Since laughter in our lives is a thing we do need
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The lure of gold brought them from a Land far away
And in unmarked graves in Vaughan their remains do lay
Far from China they lived their last night and day
In our destiny in life we do not have a say
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Cyril Baldock of Sydney at seventy from England to France did swim
The oldest ever to do so no challenge too daunting for him
The oldest ever to swim the English channel to his eternal fame
In the Guinness Book of World Records you will find Cyril's name
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What care i what others of me do say
Since i have not harmed them in any way
What they think of me is their business not mine
And what is their business does suit me quite fine
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