Francis Duggan Poems

Amanda Vanstone's promised New Year present to the Bakhtiyari family is deportation
She claims the family are from Pakistan
But Mr Bakhtiyari swears he and his wife and children are Afghans
And he does seem an honest enough man.
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She sits in her room quite relaxed on her chair
With the sunlight on some of her face and brown hair
A woman in her late twenties or early thirties maybe
And she is one who looks so lovely to me.
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I am just your average rhymer and I pen doggerel
And I never did speak to Poesy though poets know her well
Once I did see her briefly that memory with me stay
The sunlit Summer meadow scented sweetly of new mown hay.
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James has returned to his old Hometown and gray now is his once dark hair
To end his life journey from where it started he has been in the big World out there
He has seen some strange things in his travels and to tell has strange stories more than a few
And that truth can be stranger than fiction so happens to only be true.
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She cradles her baby in her arms I notice her rather large hands
She belongs to a nomadic race who wander through European Lands
A race who have known oppression and as fringe dwellers they remain
But from the beautiful music and culture of the Rom such marvellous insights we gain.
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Give credit where credit is due seems a fair thing to say
And fair dues to Joyce Hemsley on her Honorary Degree she did it the hard way
By writing four thousand poems in a decade four hundred poems a year
Of such a rare achievement we do not often hear.
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One of the best if not the best for years
John Celes is the king of sonneteers
His sonnets to them have a pleasant ring
The gift of words is such a splendid thing.
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Why should I respect those who do not respect me
Who look down upon me for my poverty
You should only respect those who show respect for you
At least to my own self I'll always be true.
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'Tis written in the Constitution and what this ambiguous statement mean
Is that the silent minority should not be heard or seen
The votes they have been counted the majority rules for all
The winners form the Government though their margin of victory small.
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James Bredin and Kaneix they both write with a passion though they hold quite a different point of view
And both of them stick to what they believe in since I should know for I am that way too
Of the World wide web the most political poets and on politics they mainly seem to dwell
But to their credit they have great potential as true potential is never hard to tell.
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