Francis Duggan Poems

She has known laughter and she has shed tears
Poor gray haired Nana is showing her years
Last September her husband of fifty five years George passed away
She visits his grave site every second day
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The bell i will not hear will be my farewell bell
Though of dying i do admit i feel scared as hell
Time as is said does take care of all
And the great tree of the forest eventually to old age does fall
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These highbrows who can boast of literary degrees
The professors of language of the universities
Decide who is worthy of literary note
A rhymer to them is just not a poet
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We are ruled by men in formal suits and expensive shirts and ties
The so called honorable many of them do believe their own lies
Many of them quite flawed people it does seem sad to say
We elect to high office on election day
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You ask Billy how he is he will tell you he feels great
That in his life he has much to celebrate
He says i feel lucky that joy is my gain
With a beautiful wife and a lovely five years old daughter how can i complain
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Celine McAuliffe a good and brave woman whose praises deserve to be sung
Her husband Michael died when their children Richard and Kathleen were young
The Reaper of lives grief her did not spare
She did have a heavy cross in life to bear
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Her shoulder length hair it is wavy and brown
The beautiful woman of Allansford Town
The pride of the place where the dark Hopkins flow
On towards the Blue Hole it crawls deep and slow
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That money with them only matters does seem fair to say
The many materialistic people in the World of today
And so many of their sort lack in empathy
For those doing it tough they feel no sympathy
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In the Seasons of time one has to go back far
Since Phillis drank and danced with her late Husband Billy O Shea in the Bush Bar
Since then many a sunset and many a sundown
And so many changes in old Millstreet Town
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She had lived by the hills of Caherbarnagh, Gortavehy and Toorbonia for most of her long life
Her name was Hannah Murphy before she became the late Jer O Leary's wife
She has many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren in places far and wide
From the mountains between Millstreet and Rathmore their home countryside
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