Francis Duggan Poems

To be materially very wealthy your claim to renown
Arguably the wealthiest one in the town
But for you too there will be a last night and day
When the Reaper of lives will come reaping your way
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In Countries in Europe and in Countries such as Australia and the U S of A
People are dying and being badly injured in acts of terrorism often though not every day
People who were unluckily in the wrong place and there at the wrong time
Have fallen victims of the perpetrators of terrorism such a foul crime
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Perhaps in reality i will never again
See old Clara half cloaked in the gray fogs of rain
Or hear the babble of the silver tongued rill
Flowing down to the river in the fields by the hill
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It is true that one only can learn from the past
And only of what was the memories do last
Time will not wait for you as it did not wait for me
But we learn as we live is how it seems to be
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Though they are quite special they firmly believe
Self important people their own selves do only deceive
For on some future night or on some future day
The one who swings the scythe of death will come reaping their way
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Some of them at home enjoy beating their wives
The materially successful who lead so called honorable lives
Wife beaters they are of every social rank
They can be multi millionaire c e o's or managers of a big bank
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In pubs in country towns he often drank until closing time at night
But Jim always jovial one who never looked for fight
In his prime ten years ago things are different for him today
Some do have their crosses life works in this way
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I know a woman she is scared of spiders
But in deep and dangerous waters she will swim
And I know a non swimmer he's scared of water
And spiders never seem to worry him.
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Rocky peaks of Makarora in the summer wear their snow
And down the lush green grassy valley the clear mountain river flow
Songbirds piping in the beechwoods songthrush, bellbird and
redpoll
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He is better known as the man about town
And he does pride himself in his local renown
Though he is oblivious to or so it does seem
That many do not hold him in high esteem
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