Francis Duggan Poems

A walk by the old Finnow river
A thing that I used to enjoy
I had my first lessons in Nature
When I was a very young boy.
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So many he knew in his younger years to life have come and gone
But like the great man that he is Joe White keeps on keeping on
Ten years short of his century in his ninetieth year of life
I remember him and his daughter daughter Bibi and his now long deceased wife.
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We make our own luck some are known to say
But lady luck she does not work in this way
She can turn you into an instant success
And rid you of your worries of financial stress,
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I've been advised to give penning stuff away
That it's about time that I called it a day
I've written of Nature of insects and bees
And of songbirds who sing on the bushes and trees.
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George W Bush is spending billions in U S taxpayers money fighting a war in Iraq
Whilst the people he is claiming to liberate are constantly under attack
From terrorists he helped to create where thousands are injured and thousands are dead
Bush is just not up to the top job and the power it has gone to his head
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The day that I left Millstreet the rain was drizzling down
And old Clara in his hat of snow overlooked Millstreet Town
On a cold day in December the chilly north winds did blow
On the day I left Duhallow some twenty years ago.
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One of the Kilcorney Twomeys Nora Neily Dennehy's wife
She raised three sons and a daughter and she led an honest life
In the lives of friends and family there is none to take her place
And Millstreet is the poorer without her smiling face
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Jim Coleman of Kilcorney was a famed Duhallow road bowling player
He lived with his wife Nora and family in Murphy's Terrace in Millstreet Town
In his road bowling days it can be said of him
That he seldom ever left his backers down.
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I have read of the passing of Neily Leary to his wife Breeda and their children a huge loss
It can only be a time of sadness for them they have been burdened with a heavy cross
In his too brief life so many he befriended and to help many out he went out of his way
From Millstreet in the flesh he has gone forever but his lot is everyone's lot one day
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From life we will be learning until the day we die
And that applies to everyone just not to you and I
For sixty years of living little knowledge I have to show
And the more we learn from living the less about life we know we know,
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