Francis Duggan Poems

If you have found your soulmate on your journey through life
In a partner or husband or lover or wife
Then you are quite lucky as lucky can be
Since soulmates are rare with that would you agree?
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He played for Cork in red and white and Millstreet in green and gold
And if he is with the living now he must be seventy years old
A champion Gaelic footballer when he was in his prime
And he was one who more than once inspired the bards to rhyme.
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A beautiful March day in Autumn the sun shining bright in the clear sky
The silver billed magpie is piping and white butterflies in the park fly
The magpie larks searching for slugs and insects from time to time call out pee wee
Familiar in their song and habits and birds that one often does see
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Most Aussie cricket fans say he'll do me
And they may add there's none so great as he
And each day he bowls there is expectancy
That he will claim more wickets maybe three.
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The pride of Australia's first people here's something of which we can brag
Red and black with a big moon of yellow the great Aboriginal flag
It should be the flag of Australia with the stars of the Southern Cross
That we tend to overlook Indigenous history and culture for us all seems such a sad loss.
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His great dream in his fifties is to emulate his son
Who was lucky enough to score a hole in one
Which is something in golf that is quite rare indeed
Where many do fail few can hope to succeed
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Stand up for yourself fellow for if not you're out of luck
For if you let others use you they will drag you through the muck
And those who seek advantage of you go treat them with disdain
But from any sort of violence your best bet is refrain.
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When i hear someone referred to as a good citizen i feel like laughing aloud
Your government approves of you big brother of you proud
But if you die tomorrow the government won't care
To them you are just a number and your type are not rare,
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To own your own home in a suburban housing estate
Or to watch the captain of your favourite team
Raise the trophy aloft after the A.F.L Grand Final siren
It's all part of the great Australian dream.
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For to have survived European colonization for them worth a boast
To the first Australians we should drink a toast
Anthropologists claim their ancestors reached the southern shores sixty thousand years ago
And maybe even further back in time for of that how would they know
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