Francis Duggan Poems

So many live their lives in their narcissistic way
The look at me people in the Human World of today
Their three favourite people are me, myself and I
This is how they will be until the day they do die
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A rhymer for more than a four decade span
I have been told by some I am a bitter old man
In some of the things in written words I do say
That I look at humanity in a negative way
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Great men and women to life have come and from gone
But no matter who comes or goes life does go on
That in everyone is replaceable the truth does remain
Like somebody's loss becomes another's gain
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Some of the best things in life to view are monetary free
The beauty in Nature we do not pay to see
Her beauty is all around some of us every day
Even from urban people Nature's beauty not far away
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I remember Johnny Keeffe in his physical prime
Though this is going back many decades in time
As a young man he was handsome and athletic and tall
And for Millstreet and Cork he played Gaelic Football
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Doctors and surgeons may help you to live longer but they cannot help you to grow younger and strong
In the long term they cannot keep death from you if you think they can you have got it wrong
For you are born a mortal like all others and mortals are born to die
This is a fact of our existence and as is said of fact it never lie
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You are feeling despondent your mind is full of strife
And you are seriously thinking of taking your life
To your counsellors and psychiatrist most of your wages you pay
Though they are not helping you in any way
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Old memories of them to me a source of joy
The Irish travellers I knew of when I was a boy
In an Ireland that was changing before I reached my physical prime
And this is going back many decades of time
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If I said I.am a poet this would be a lie
But a rhymer I will be until the day I will die
For many years I have been a rhyming buff
And I have written reams and reams of rhyming stuff
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They live in a different World to you or to I
They cheat on their partners and spouses and of their love affairs know how to lie
In the world of celebrity honour never seems for to take pride of place
Most of their sort honour and values could never embrace
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