Francis Duggan Poems

Compassionate people are always helping those in need of helping every day
Without even expecting a thank you or the reward of pay
If everyone were like them humanity would be free of hunger, war and poverty
And a much better World for to live in for all it would be
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The Earth that feeds us is not being destroyed
By people on low wages or the unemployed
But by selfish people who feel this great need
To destroy Nature's beauty to satiate their greed
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Some people carry their grudges for as long as they live
They do not have it in them the gift to forgive
Though they have not been sinned against in a bad way
They will hang on to their grudges till their lives final day
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Since we are born as mortals why otherwise pretend
We are on a life's journey that for us must end
For us humans a last day and night for us all
As well as all life forms from the great to the small
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On the last month of the southern Fall the second day of May
The sun at times does shine through it's cloud cover of gray
After recent rain the paddocks of Illowa looking healthy and green
In Nature on all Seasons great beauty to be seen
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Every day for you a new challenge to meet
As for fame, wealth and success with others you compete
This is what living life is about in the twenty first century
In a World where millions of people live in dire poverty
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It is true that for many living life can be tough
And some find that their best is not good enough
To their disappointment such is life as they say
There are winners and losers in the World every day
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You may be the nicest person in the town
But always a few in words to put you down
People who look on niceness as a human flaw
Who in their words are insulting and raw
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Of sunshine and wind and flooding and drought
Australia this amazing Land of the south
That has inspired artists and the and the writers of story and rhyme
This home of the descendants of the people of the Dreaming Time
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Not every writer recognized as a novelist or a journalist or a playwright or poet
And only a few become famous and are lauded as of literary note
But most writers yearn for recognition and of being famous one day
Everyone need some dream to cling to for to keep low self esteem at bay
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