Francis Duggan Poems

Here on the high ground of the Cairn Nature's beauty is all around me
Green interspersed with brown coastal country as far as the naked eyes can see
Beyond the sandhills of the Cuttings where the ocean meets the shore
Our lives can be numbered in minutes Nature is forever more
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As some men grow older they do not grow wise
A fact of life many i am sure does realize
The ageing sugar daddy he dyes his hair brown
One of the materially wealthier older men of the town
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The past it has gone only the memories does remain
Of the what used to be but cannot be again
That we learn as we live it does seem this way
And we learn something new from life every day
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A true rhymer never does run out of rhyme
Though eventually she or he runs out of time
Long after their best mental and physical years have gone
The writers of rhyme they does keep rhyming on
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Quite sunny and warm for the first day of the New Year
The flute like songs of the magpies so pleasant to hear
With the sun on their wings in the gentle breeze
Brown butterflies flitting from bushes to trees
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The bigger World out there she yearned for to see
She would not spend her lifetime in green Knocknagree
When the hawthorns were cloaked in their blossoms of pale gray
She left home on a Spring morning in early May
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The arrogance in others that i does see
Is perhaps what i does dislike about in me
Since i too can be arrogant in my own way
I am a flawed person in truth i can say
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Many passions and fashions time have not survived
And the age of the man bag has finally arrived
Though i do not have a man bag in truth i can say
That fashionable males in my eyes areokay
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The future a mystery the past a memory
And we can only live in the now is how it seems to be
On how long we will live is not for us to say
For many this will be their last living day
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He is one of those who does not socialize
Yet he is a man in his own ways quite wise
Yet some who know ofhim say he is strange in his way
The tribeless are fringe dwellers in the Human World of today
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