Francis Duggan Poems

A few days left in August a few days from the Spring
This evening in the gloaming i heard the blackbird sing
He whistled as the sun went down somewhere on a nearby tree
His song so recognizable though him i did not see.
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Did you ever feel disappointed to find your best not good enough
Yet you did keep on persevering though you found the going rather tough
But your doubters you are determined to prove wrong you will not quit after one failed try
At least you do prove you have courage and that of you none can deny,
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Lessons were not learned from Vietnam and Iraq's the latest story
Yet how can some men learn from war when through war they seek their glory
Another war victory parade the flags and banners flying
And those who do cry out for peace in vain are only crying.
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The magpie on the gum tree pipes his melodious air
And the great beauty of Nature surrounds me everywhere
The nearest place to utopia of i will ever know
My love for Mother Nature it only seems to grow,
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At this stage of my existence i do not need an enemy
To be a better person is all i wish to be
What i dislike in others in my own self i see
My better days behind me old age ahead of me.
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He lives a lonely sort of life in Dunkeld's old brown lake
A black and white muscovy duck or should i say a drake
And every time i visit there he follows me around
As if i were a long lost friend that he at last had found,
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As dead as the dodo some say about rhyme
But then suppose everything does have it's time
The great rhyme poets and poetesses in their long rest now lay
They did have their innings one of them can say.
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He is a serial killer and awful things he has done
But his mother says he is not guilty and she stands by her son
A jury found him guilty but with their verdict she does not agree
She says my son is innocent i believe what he told me
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A booming economy Government spokes people say
And things looking better with each passing day
And you keep voting for us and you will be okay
Such are the games that politicians do play
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Crow sized white cockatoos and not seen everywhere
Though in the Southern Grampians they do not seem rare
With long down curved bills for digging for food in the ground
The calls that they utter not a pleasant sound
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