Francis Duggan Poems

We all do go through our bleak moments in life
Of worries and troubles and deep inner strife
And moments of lack of self worth the sibling of self doubt
One well might say this is what life is about
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In some Countries people who speak in public against the regime for their words are made for to pay
They are condemned to serve years of imprisonment and tortured and beat every day
These are brave and wonderful people they do stand for something that is great
For human rights they carry the banner and them we ought to celebrate
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Like everyone else he is not a flawless man
But to gain out of someone else's misfortune is not in his life's plan
If life is cruel to you and you are feeling down
He will not disown you as a sad sack of the town
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Not unlike the moth or the bee or the fly
We are born to life and in numbers our kind multiply
And like all other life forms we eventually die
The same for the billionaire as you and i
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He is not one who does easily scare
The fellow who does like to have a dare
In deep and in dangerous waters he does swim
Fear is a complete stranger to him
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Duhallow sporting greats are often honored in story and song
And not to laud them for their sporting achievements would surely seem wrong
I talk here of a classy Gaelic footballer who was deceptively strong
The Pride of Annagloor the great Denis Long
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The last time i see him he was walking on Sturt Street
I little thought then that him i would never more meet
That life can be cruel on some it does seem so
He died of a heart attack ten years ago
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In the home of the moorhen, black duck and the pale eyed crow
Old Merri through the flat country by Warrnambool flow
To Lake Pertobe en route to the Pacific at Lady Bay
It does slowly creep onward by night and by day
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An old framed photograph in John Joe Daly's kitchen in Inchaleigh hanging on the wall
Holds a memory for me for as long as i live from the past that i will recall
From the 1945 All Ireland senior football final Cork v Cavan one to top them all
Of Din Connors of Cork and Millstreet with a one handed catch of the gaelic football
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Of the bond of friendship and trust between people and their dogs writers like to write
I do know of such a friendship between Bruce Lowenthal and his dog Sam a west highland white
Wherever Bruce goes to in his truck Sam with him goes along
The bond between him and his dog will always be strong
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