Francis Duggan Poems

Far too many poor and homeless people in the World today
Without a home to live in or a bed on which to lay
In draughty disused factory doorways trying to sleep hungry at night
Mere survival for them is an uphill fight
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Mountain duck or Australian shelduck in south eastern Australia one see often though not every day
From lakes or water dams never far away
As big as a small goose of black, chestnut and white
Nature writers of them few stories ever write
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Old Luke in his eighties once did say to me
I am not what my mum and dad wished me to be
Like my older deceased brother Dr John for years a respected M D
But we all look at life in our ways differently
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The majority of the wealth in the Human World is owned by the few
And this is not saying anything that is new
So many poor people in the World today
And this in itself seems a sad thing to say
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One of the largest members of the kingfisher family
The laughing kookaburras as a family proclaim their territory
With a prolonged loud cackling for which they are widely known
Distinctive in their habits and with ways of their own
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The joyful lilt of laughter is such a marvellous sound
Happiness is in the air where mirth does abound
The people who laugh readily are nice people to know
And it truly can be said of them that their friends in numbers grow
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The day it is sunny and breezy though cool
In the often windy City of Warrnambool
On changeable weather in the southern May
With the calendar Winter just a few weeks away
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From there i have been many Seasons away
And there to many i would be a stranger today
Claraghatlea two kilometres west of Millstreet town
Where i used to live when my hair was dark brown
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Perhaps in her eighties her hair silver gray
The hat off of her head by the wind blown away
Into the saltwater and washed out to sea
Two male teenagers nearby fun in this did see
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On success you and i cannot agree
Those who are successful to you are not so to me
Of the praises of celebrities you love to sing
But success as is said can be a relative thing
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