Francis Duggan Poems

Of National security we so often hear
Just one more example of power held through fear
We may be growing older but are we growing wise
We trust the power hungry and swallow their lies?
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The leaves are now brown on the deciduous trees
And there is a coolness in the afternoon breeze
It rained for a couple of hours overnight
And everywhere looks so fresh in the Autumn sunlight
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The stuff that I pen I could not hope to sell
And here's for posterity one more doggerel
The migratory waders long gone north to breed
And the thistles of Autumn have matured to seed
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Loathed by so many and loved by so few
The weed that is known as 'the wandering jew'
It survives in all weather even in long spells of drought
And I would not know how it's name came about
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He is such a cynical person as cynical as one can be
Yet he is a helpful sort of fellow and few as kindhearted as he
He does not believe politicians or the media and what he hears or read he makes up his own mind
Not the type to follow the leader his own way through life he does find
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In her dark and earthy bosom forever I will lay
For I'll return to Nature I know I will one day
Like everyone before me that will be my destiny
For I'm one more mere mortal there's a use by date on me
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Despite her seven decades of years she is still the Town's
best poet
And of her writing talents the critics have taken note
The younger poets look up to her and them she does inspire
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It was an old Countryside I used to know
Where from the hills of Kilcunda the old Powlett flow
Through the land that was once owned by the Bunurong
That often inspires poets to poetry and song,
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Everywhere that I do turn to look her beauty I can see
You can have your invisible God though goddess Nature will do me
I can hear her wild birds singing at the dawning of the day
Just before the sun starts rising above the wood across the way
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A huge population in the World of six billion or more
And the numbers increasing as never before
And people dying of hunger and in war zones every day
Life for most not easy 'twould be fair to say
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