Francis Duggan Rhyme Poems

Though my worth as a rhymer i have reason to doubt
No shortage of things for me to write about
To write rhyme is easy as easy as can be
Anybody can do it you can have that from me
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For many years England's Poet Laureate but that's going back in time
John Masefield he wrote long stories in rhyme
True genius of him none could deny
His great poems to his greatness testify,
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At Boesinghe in Belgium Francis Ledwidge fell
Killed there by an exploding shell
And he did not go home again
To Ireland, County Meath and Slane.
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I show the gray time only bring though the years have made me mellow
Still the leopard never change his spots I'm still a rustic fellow
I come from Land of bracken hills and small fields fringed by hedges
And I am still a country man and rough around the edges.
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The twenty first century literary critics only too willing to promote
The poetry of the non rhyming non musical poet
And dismiss every rhymer as a literary never do well
Since the best of rhyme to them is mere doggerel
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I know all too well that my rhymes are a bit rough
To be taken as serious not quite good enough
But we all cannot be famous and looked on as great
And only the few the masses celebrate
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To write rhyme in writing one does not need much skill
Like rill in rhyme always goes well with hill
Four decades back back my first rhymes i wrote down
In notebook when i lived near Millstreet Town
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Since penning of rhyme does not come hard to me
I can only write of Nature's beauty i do see
Everywhere around me every day
From where i live Utopia is not far away
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There can be a sting to my pen though some may find me mellow
And I am just a working man a no frills working fellow
I make no money from my rhymes I labour for my living
And my gifts I'm prepared to share it's just my way of giving.
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For many years now I have been a rhyme buff
And though I have written a whole heap of stuff
The rhymes I have penned though not very good
Are not very hard for to be understood,
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I may be years past my life's prime
But still I pen more doggerel rhyme
'Tis just a way of life with me
To write on everyday things I see
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I am one who has written many pages of rhyme
Without the reward of pay over decades of time
And though not one of those to the literary fore
It is something I enjoy doing and little else more
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I will write you a rhyme of a far away place
Where mine years ago was a familiar face
To many there today a stranger i would be
A new generation would not know of me
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This penning of rhyme can be a 'hungry belly game'
For me no money in it and scarce little fame
It is something i enjoy doing and little else more
This is something you may have heard me say before
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This penning of rhyme can be a hungry belly game
It is true what is said that one cannot live on fame
As a young man i often daydreamed that i would be a poet
Quite wealthy and famous and of literary note
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For many years i have been a rhyming buff
And i am one of those who has penned reams of stuff
The rhymes keep coming to me on notebook paper i pen them down
But never for financial gain or for literary renown
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I repeat here what i have said often before
I write rhymes for enjoyment that and nothing more
Anyone can rhyme Tim rhymes with Jim
And fish as we know they are born to swim
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She is a few decades beyond her life's prime
Perhaps in her early fifties the Woman of Rhyme
Her once brown hair clipped short is now silver gray
One might say she is ageing in the natural way
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Go sing me a rhyme of the wild birds of song
Who in their nesting time of year sing all the day long
On every bush and on every tree
When there is so much beauty in Nature to see
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As verse it is seen as out of fashion and those who pen it not destined for wealth or for fame
It would seem it has passed it's use by date few things in life do stay the same
Rhyme verse is as dead as the dodo that's what literary critics do say
Suppose it did have a good innings since everything does have it's day.
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I do love the music in old fashioned rhyme
The poetry some say is of another time
The poetry that is born of music and song
The poetry that to people who love rhyme belong.
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I'm one of those blokes an addictive rhymer and one might say that I am hooked on rhyme
And many would see that as unproductive or in other words a simple waste of time
I've been penning verse since I was twenty seven and that was thirty four years ago
And I've written over six thousand and five hundred pieces yet for my efforts don't have much to show.
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Poetry now seen for the elite and what was the peoples at one time
Now belong to exclusive clubs and colleges since the death of good old rhyme
This the age of so called blank verse and the era of the modern poet
To new age high brows at poetry readings new age writers stanzas from their own poems quote.
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Few rhymers in life do know of wealth and fame
This writing of rhyme can be a hungry belly game
It is much the same for every rhyming buff
Few interested enough to read their written stuff
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He's well beyond the ninety and he's Ringwood's last rhyme poet
And his out put is a huge one and reams of rhymes he's wrote
And still he keeps on writing and his verses multiply
And he has still as much zest for life as any teenage boy.
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You do not have to tell me it is not hard to pen rhyme
Since people have been doing it over centuries of time
Rhyme is not poetry the twenty first century literary critics say
And the literary minded respect to their opinions do pay
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The poetess long dead but her words living on
Since she passed away many Seasons have come and have gone
The one who had penned many a memorable poem and song
To the long deceased legends she now does belong
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The thing known as rhyme is not hard for to write
And easy to memorize and to recite
For as long as the rhythm and metre are right
A good rhyme poem can be a source of delight
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They do write in English but never in rhyme
Those referred to by the literary critics as the poets of our time
Of language they seem to have a great command
Though their poems I do struggle for to understand.
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Some people now refer to rhyme as prose
That's how they see it one has to suppose
Between verse and doggerel the meaning they do miss
But then with their sort ignorance is bliss.
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I cannot claim to be a poet for poets I know are few
And as a doggerelist and a rhymer I'm somewhere between the two
And my literary efforts have not even reached the critics scan
So let me live and let me die an ordinary man.
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In the park or the pub or sidewalk of the street
Or wherever i am at Goddess of Rhyme i do meet
In faces and places her i do see
Wherever i am she is all around me
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I have written so much rhyming stuff it does seem
Though this does not do anything for my self esteem
My rhymes rather simple and easy to recite
For my own enjoyment the only reason i write
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Though eventually we all become victims of time
Till the end of life's journey the rhymer writes rhyme
For others to enjoy and read and recite
'Tis for love of rhyming the rhymer does write
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For many years i have been a rhyming buff
Just one who has written a whole heap of stuff
Not one of the young brigade of rhyming men
Of years i have lived a year with three score and ten
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All i receive for my rhyme sometimes a well done with a smile
And sometimes does rhyming pay well and has it been all worth your while
In this the twenty first century literary styles changing fast
Prosaic poetry a literary in thing and rhyme is a thing of the past
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The thing known as good poetry not meant to have in it rhyme
In literature a lot has changed one might say in fifty years of time
Rhyme once a popular form of poetry by literary critics now dismissed as doggerel
And rhymers have been condemned to literature's poetasters hell
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This penning of rhyme can be a hungry belly game
For most in it no money as well as no fame
At penning of rhyme most rhymers for themselves never make a name
Though it is something they do enjoy doing just the same
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For many years i have been a rhyming buff
One of those who has written loads of rhyming stuff
And what matter if to many my rhymes seem a bit rough
Only few out of millions of writers seen to be good enough
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Perhaps it is true what some do claim that anybody can write in rhyme
A style of writing that belongs to another time
The days of the rhymers are in the long gone
That is if you heed the words of the literary don
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With little in the way of assets and money to my name
For me penning rhyme a hungry belly game
I say here again what I've often said before
I just write for pleasure that and nothing more
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My literary tastes have not changed with the passing of time
I have always been one with a liking for rhyme
To rhyme is so easy as some like to say
Though rhymers seem so out of fashion today
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I've been penning stuff since I was in my life's prime
For some thirty five years that is going back in time
An addiction to writing is never a crime
But few can write poetry anyone can rhyme
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I have been penning stuff since nineteen seventy three
And of the rhyming bug i may never be free
But a rhymer at best is the best i can be
What have i done for rhyme what has rhyme done for me?
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I write rhyme but i cannot claim to be a poet
Just one more not seen to be worthy of note
But that i do enjoy rhyming i cannot deny
And why i go on rhyming this the reason why
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With rhyme words i am one who does like to play
And new rhymes do come to my mind every day
But since for my rhymes i never receive any money in pay
Some tell me i should give my hobby away
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In and out of Lake Pertobe on towards Lady Bay
Towards the Pacific at Middle Island it slowly winds it's way
Old Merri that has inspired story and rhyme
That was very old in the dinosaur time
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Eventually everyone does run out of time
But for as long as they live rhymers never run out of rhyme
And every day new things for to write rhymes about
The rhymer rhymes on even in times of self doubt
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With rhyme words i am one who does love to play
And new rhymes do come to my mind every day
On notebook paper i pen them down
But never for money or for literary renown
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It is true what is said anyone can pen rhyme
But the works of the true poets do live on in time
And the twenty first century literary critics the praises of the modern poets sing
It does seem that blank verse is now the in thing
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