Francis Duggan Poems

At the Boeing new year swim he is always first in
Mick Collins the fellow with anti freeze skin
For one in his late fifties or early sixties not much younger than me
He is quite a tough nut would you not agree
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Sunshine in the blue sky of clouds woolly gray
On a pleasant and breezy early January day
The flute of the magpie in the park by the bay
Earthly Utopia from this place cannot be far away
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He is anti social that much he admit
And he lacks in humor and he lacks in wit
With his human frailties he constantly fight
The one who will never be in the limelight
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Koroit in South West Victoria a coastal rural Town
To have strong links to Ireland one of it's claims to renown
Near Tower Hill of Gerai Wurrung, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung
Long gone but remembered in story and songs of them sung
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He has climbed Mt Everest sailed the World's Seven Seas
Walked to the South Pole in minus sixty degrees
He has dined with the monarch won Olympic Gold
Stories of his greatness will be read of and told
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It does matter little would you not agree
What i think of you or what you think of me
I project my feelings or so i have been told
Like some i have not grown wiser though i am growing old
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From the overnight frost the high fields looking gray
Back by Mushera Mountain it is cold today
The cold breath of January in the winter breeze
That sough in the wood in the spruce and pine trees
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At most things many of us humans with each other compete
To be best in the neighborhood and best in the street
To be what we are good at the best in the town
In our goal for self of a greater renown
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Down with cyber bullying it ought to be treated as a serious crime
It has brought young victims to suicide years from their life's prime
For to drive their young victims to an early grave
For the cyber offenders such a cowardly way to behave
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With shoulder length wavy brown hair so graceful and tall
At the dance in Crossley the fairest of all
Of her type of beauty songs written and sung
Just watching her dance would make an old man feel young
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