Francis Duggan Poems

Though them i do hear and do see every day
Of them i know little in truth i can say
As independent of human beings most of them do stay
They have their own lives and live in their own way
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Everyone have their journey in life to pursue
Though for many their dreams for them never come true
Life's winners can smile as winners always do
This is how it is for all and all includes me and you
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Wisdom and serenity does not come with time's decay
One can say of Kate that she waffles away
I feel glad that her i don't meet every day
Since for herself she always has so much to say
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On the roadway by where many of the deceased of Warrnambool lay
The cars, buses and trucks pass to and fro every day
And though the noisy traffic to them is quite near
In the quietness of the dark earth the dead does not hear
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Lauded by the literary critics for the beauty in wheir words they create
Some modern novelists, playwrights, poets and other writers are looked on as great
And though the critics may boost their book sales when their praises they sing
Greatness to most people can be a relative thing
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Jobs created for the emissions of more carbon into the natural environment does not make for good sense
On this there ought to be a case for a defense
Mine owners who make millions out of mining are not Mother Earth's friend
That they are legalized environmental criminals why otherwise pretend
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A famous former politician and as a friends of the natural environment one to the fore
One worthy of admiration the one and only Al Gore
He should have been President of the U S of A
A job he was robbed of as many do say
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In a World for winners to be a winner everyone choose
But for one to win big many do have to lose
This is how it is and how it will stay
For winners there are losers life works in this way
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He is of the place of the gray kangaroo
And the pied currawong and the dark brown weerloo
Tall and handsome in his early twenties with hair of light brown
Homesick for the high wooded country far from the industrial town
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If i die tomorrow take care of my wife
She is a good person and deserves a good end to her life
Gave birth to and raised five children none of them biologically mine
They are quite good people though not of my genetic line
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