Francis Duggan Poems

Of nostalgic tears none left for to keep
In the migrant minds feelings do run deep
For towns and places in distance far away
From where they first looked on the bright lamp of day
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We live in the present the past it has gone
Tomorrow is coming and life does go on
At the stroke of midnight the past will be today
And time does not wait as the wise one does say
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For many years i have been a rhyming buff
Just one who has written a whole pile of stuff
I am not one of those to the literary fore
Rhyming is something i love doing and little else more
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It rained overnight the morning sky was gray
But the sun it is shining in Illowa today
Nature at her finest she is to be seen
And the paddocks are looking so lush and so green
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Though they may feel that they have the majority of people on their side
Governments who deny asylum to the stateless and dispossessed have no cause for pride
Refugee rights and human rights are one and the same
And to deny anyone of their human rights is a moral shame
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That money is important why otherwise pretend
The wealthy and the famous never short of a friend
The homeless of the poor streets so few of wish to know
They multiply in numbers and poorer they do grow
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There must be bloodshed, suffering and death for a war to be won
And the wife or partner, siblings and parents grieve for the dead soldier hero one
Who died in the bloody battle where the gunfire was loud
Of how brave he died of no consolation to them though he done his Country proud
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Some quite well educated people of Nature so little does know
They even think that the blackbird is a species of crow
Though highly educated professionals of uni degrees
They will tell you knowledge of no financial value to them on the birds and the bees
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I have some advice for you my literary friend did say
Perhaps you ought to consider giving rhyming away
Since for it you never receive any pay
And money is most important in the World of today
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It is not the size of your home or the size of your car
That tells me of the person that you really are
Since many who are materially successful in their ways are small
And their idea of a fair go does not include all
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