Francis Duggan Poems

Their beauty sad to say will not last long a few days to live that is all
The white butterflies in the garden on this warm day in the Fall
So little time in their bloom of beauty to mate and lay their eggs and to fly
Around the wildflowers and the flowering bushes when the sun shines bright in the sky
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Back there by the old Finnow river the pink breasted male chaffinch sing
And the white breasted dipper sings in the rapids and the first wildflowers of the Spring
Are blooming by the hedgerows and in the sheltered places and new leaves sprout on the deciduous trees
And the old fields becoming much greener and the Wintery chill has left the breeze
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Of course there is always Powerball a nine million to one chance of a division one win
And though the odds may be stacked against you for to win you have got to be in
And the battling woman has a ticket for the jacxpot draw on thursday night
And if she is the lucky big winner she will celebrate until daylight,
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It is a changed Ireland the Ireland of today
Going by what i do read and of it what others say
For it has been two decades since I've seen Erin's shore
And heard the birds singing in old Claramore.
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Though some people do not believe in live and let live
Those who have sinned against us we must try to forgive
For any grudges you bear causes spiritual decay
And eats the compassion that is in you away,
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Niall Kelleher of the Station Road a young man i used to know
He died of a terminal illness going back five years ago
Perhaps in his early forties then his spirit still lives on
He lives in the hearts of those who knew him though the life from him has gone.
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You say your god is the one true god of that how would you know
For that your god is the one true god what proof have you to show
If others say their god is the one true god does that mean they are wrong?
If there is any god at all to god all does belong
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There must be a butterfly heaven for butterflies are free of sin
And the keeper of the gates of heaven will allow them for to enter in
For to flit through the gardens of heaven and to dance in the sun and the wind
There must be a butterfly heaven if there is one for the human kind.
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I'd like to know more about Nature for of Nature so little i know
Though we see the beauty she creates and the beautiful things she does grow
Her rill that is born by the mountain flows downland by many a hedgerow
And it swells into a mighty river and on towards the ocean does flow.
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I am just your average Killer i killed ten mosquitoes last night
Though many managed for to escape me and left me with many a nasty bite
For to lay their eggs my blood they had needed in a pond or an open tank of water nearby
Despite killing some they persisted and buzzing above me did fly
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