Francis Duggan Flower Poems

He left her at Aubane cross on a sunny morn in May
He kissed the tearful maid goodbye and then the motor car sped away
His driver drove towards Shannon for Australia he was bound
He had left Aubane and Millstreet and was leaving Irish ground.
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They tell us who our enemies are and those who we ought to fear
But any real plan for World peace from them we never hear
And how much more of the Planet Earth are they going to destroy
And how many more have to suffer and how many more have to die?
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Brown skin and dark hair with a smile on her face
A beautiful young woman of charm and grace
Her home City from here it is far away
The pride of Warrnambool is a flower from Mumbai
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Her hair was as dark as the wing of a crow
But as is said of age on beauty it does show
In her physical prime she was the Flower of Kirkstall
In the Koroit countryside then the fairest of all
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The beautiful flower of Kilmeedy in Kilmeedy she did not stay
In the green valley on view of Clara where she first looked on the lamp of day
It is said she is living in Christchurch New Zealand from her first home in distance far away
Married with young children to a New Zealander this is what those in the know of her does say
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Like the weeds of the garden they stifle every flower
The narcissistic people invested with great power
Far too many of their sort are leaders in the Human World of today
For their rule loss of human rights many are forced to pay
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In the Summer Corpus Christi procession long ago in Millstreet Town
Young girls of the Convent school among others up to the Town Square from the West End slowly walked down
With the warm winds from the mountains in the balmy air
Willie Murphy on his public address system led the congregation in prayer
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News of more maimed and dying in bombings and terrorism from here far away
The white flower of peace is not blooming today
In war and terrorism it is always the innocent for the sins of others does pay
And this is a very sad thing for to say
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