Francis Duggan Poems

His brother Paddy a well known inventor in the Cork Mart gates his genius is seen
And Timmy in his own right a wise man and clever farms the family farm at Dooneen
He used to play cards in the Holiday house at the West End with Jimmy Cronin, Clem Kelleher and Paddy Dinneen
The memories of the past still with me and like the home fields evergreen.
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The lapwings gather in flocks in the Winter in fields gray with frost in the coldest time of year
And though it's been a while now since I've seen them their peewit calls I fancy I can hear
They always flew south in the colder weather when northern fields wore thick blanket of snow
In February and March I often see them when I lived north of here long years ago.
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The huge surf waves at Kilcunda rumble and toss and roar
And crash against the volcanic rocks that guard the ocean shore
The beach submerged in water as the tide rise and rise
And the fury of the angry seas drowns out the sea birds cries.
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Psychologists claim our body language to our personality gives a clue
But when a pretty woman smiles and says hello to you
It doesn't mean that for you she has fallen or that it's love at first sight
She is just a friendly person who to others is polite.
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By your money, property and type of job so many gauge your success
And though these three seem important what matter none the less
That you be a good person and live good as you can
For in time the oldest human being doesn't have a lengthy span.
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To my life many people come and go
Yet my own self I do not seem to know
And since myself I do not know all do seem strange to me
And only strangers everywhere I see.
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Many people believe there's a life hereafter that all good souls go to heaven when they die
To live with god and his angels forever in their World of love and joy beyond the sky
And all bad souls are condemned to live with satan for to suffer with the damned and of hell never be free
But since I've never spoken to a dead person the after life
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The Prime Minister of Australia by the Aussie voters empowered
You know the bloke I'm on about his name is Sir John Howard
Though the Sir is yet not ratified by her majesty his queen
It would seem a mere formality you must know what I mean.
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It would not take an Einstein for to tell you that the mirror to a person's soul is in their eyes
Unless of course you are wearing dark sunglasses the not so good in you not easy to disguise
Our gift of seeing things tells us more about us far more than anyone might realize
And sad to think as some of us grow older that from the years we have not grown more wise
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A warm and a sunny day in early December with just a very slight and pleasant breeze
And the late morning air scent of roses and sounds of bird song and the shrill calls of cicadas on the trees
A few days back this park land it was flooded when thunder rain fell heavily on Bulleen
And now save for a water filled drain and a few puddles of water so little signs of flooding to be seen.
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