Francis Duggan Poems

Like giant sized blackbirds dark feathers and orange bills
They search for cockles and oysters along the rocky shore
I've seen them in family groups of five to nine or ten
And in smaller groups of two to three or four.
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He proudly walks out hand in hand with his new girl friend
And from gym workouts he looks well muscled broad shouldered
and trim
He wears sleeveless shirts to display his tattoos well bronzed from sun and wind
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She talks of the country around Powlett river
And the highlands of South Gippsland gray to brown
And though her search for self betterment has brought her north to Sydney
She still remembers old Wonthaggi Town.
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She earns her living as a care giver that sort of work to her appeal
For she is a kind and caring person the lovely Vanessa Veal
Always smiling and quite friendly a lovely young woman with straw blond hair
Her type now seem on the decrease people like her all too rare.
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The people who to you would never drink a toast
Those who are jealous of you admire you the most
Jealousy is a form of admiration turned upside down
And those who are jealous crave their own renown
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The career her mum had mapped out for her did not work out to plan
For Catherine went to Kenya and married a Maasai man
She adapted to a different sort of culture and a different way of life
And to the noble Robert she's a devoted wife.
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Her husband a teller in the big City bank
And the middle class snob she craves social rank
Her dream is he will be manager one day
A man of influence with a huge take home pay.
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From the bogs of Ballydesmond down the fields of Knocknagree
Flow on wandering Blackwater flow on blissfully and free
Down by Cork and Kerry border through the Meadows of Rathmore
At the starting of your journey for the wild Atlantic shore.
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So generous and kind in her own charming way
Tomorrow for her will be a special day
Her sixty eight birthday she will celebrate
She looks well though she has been ageing of late
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Our sense of self importance within the mind grows
Into selfishness and one has to suppose
That this is a sense of survival 'twould seem
Self conceit and arrogance does not grow on low self esteem
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