Jim O'Donnell Poems

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1.
Children Playing

Children playing in the street
Dirty face and dirty feet
Skipping ropes and singing songs
This will last all summer long
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2.
Desert Island

Footsteps on a sandy shore
Are they the ones from me before?
Swam to the shore from the sea
From a ship wreck catastrophe
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3.
Florence Nightingale

Statues of you are world wide
You fill all nurses with pride
The lady with the lamp that burns so bright
Watching over us throughout the night
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4.
My Sister's 60th

Born in nineteen forty nine
Ma wee sister look just fine
Sixty years have flown right past
She’s still a great wee lass
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5.
Baldness

Baldness comes to men like me
And I am only twenty three
Few strands of hair upon my head
They know all the rest is dead
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6.
Drugs

I remember the day drugs came into your life
You thought it would never change your life
Well it did it took your smile away
And removed you from your family
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7.
Hero's

Hero’s come in all shapes and sizes
Some of them are big surprises
Matters not just who they are
They come from near and some so far
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8.
Workmates

My friends are leaving work today
Each going their separate ways
I’d like to wish you all the best
Workmates never the less
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9.
White Clydesdale Horse

That big white horse he stands so high
And coat so white it hurts my eyes
A Clydesdale horse is the breed
Stand so proud does this stead
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10.
Laundry Spirits

Laundry spirits all around
Stealing things without a sound
When I hang my washing out
Something missing there’s no doubt
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