Francis Duggan Poems

My electricity bill I just cannot pay
Dear God when I need you where are you today
You don't seem to listen when to you I pray
And when I need your help from me you turn away.
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Tadgh Driscoll and his late Wife Kathy raised their three sons in Millstreet and by Millstreet Town his last remains now lay
In his ninetieth year of life he was a good age since for all of us a final night and day
He was a chemist and a travel agent an honest man one well liked and well known
Around Millstreet Town quite a familiar figure his friends in numbers through the years had grown
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By their deciduous mother tree on the grass they do lay
The brown leaves of the Autumn have gone to decay
The magpie is piping in the dawn cool and gray
And life it goes on since that is Nature's way
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Does it really matter how much stuff you do write
Or if you are the best or the worst in your literary site
Or if your best days are coming or if your best days have gone
What does matter most is you keep penning on
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A sunny saturday morning in August so good to be alive
A nice day for one with a car to go on a rural drive
In late Winter in coastal Victoria parks and paddocks look so green
And there is natural beauty in abundance to be seen
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The old stream that rises in the foothills and into a river does grow
Through fields and by groves and by hedgerows on to the great ocean does flow
The artists have sketched it's liquid beauty the poets about it have sung
And none can mistake it for it's babble the one who has the silver tongue
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An ageist society we live in today
But then some will tell you it's always been this way
Some in hair dyes and face lifts try to hide time's decay
But the clock on our lives it keeps ticking away.
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One does not even have to walk far for a good person to find
I have met so many people who are generous and kind
For to help out those in need of help they go out of their way
And sow the seeds of their good karma by doing a good deed every day
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His music is still living though the musician has died
And is played by Sliabh luachra migrants far from their home countryside
The great Johnny Leary is no longer with us to the forever he has gone
But he has left us his music and his legend will live on
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What Nation wins the most gold medals in the pride stakes to the fore
'Tis all about winning that and nothing more
A showpiece of sport many are known to say
But the price for Olympoic failure for some huge to pay
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