Francis Duggan Poems

It seems lady luck is not with you today
As nothing at all it is going your way
The boss has refused you your request for a raise in pay
On good or bad fortune one does not have a say
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The waterway with it's source At the foot of the hill
Which flows with a babbling tongue that is never still
That grows to a river on it's sea going way
And flows on forever by night and by day
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Everyday rhymes come to me i just write them down
But never for money or literary renown
Among the rhyming sort not one to the fore
I just write for enjoyment and little else more
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Big Billy a big man with little to say
But not the type one with mind games ought to play
He is not a bully and all bullies he hate
And all of those who are bullied look to him as a mate
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I knew of her when she was in her life's full bloom
In her early twenties the Rose of Macroom
With brown eyes and wavy shoulder length hair of brown
A woman of quite rare beauty of the old mid Cork Town
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Some of our political leaders in the Human World of today
Reflect poorly on us in truth one can say
Ignoring global warming and talking of war
How stupid do they think that all of us are?
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The black and white Australian feathered minstrels birds with a silvery bill
Small birds, amphibians and small animals they have been known for to kill
They are known as Australian magpies or otherwise piping shrike
As birds they are quite territorial without any real look alike
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Many of us humans aggressive by nature to say different would be to pretend
We are not that different to birds and animals in that with violence our borders we defend
Yet we never learn from war history mistakes of the past we repeat
In violence there are never winners where peace has lost there is only defeat
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The low clouds of rain over Tower Hill are gray
It is raining in drizzles in Koroit today
The countryside by the old Town looks green overall
On the last week of April in the southern Fall
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You may feel the World is against you since nothing for you is going right
And life for you is a great battle every day with your demons you fight
Without a job and little prospect of such in a high unemployment town
A smile from your face seems far distant when you are financially and mentally down
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