Francis Duggan Poems

Through flat and green paddocks in waters of brown
Old Merri flows onwards towards Warrnambool town
In and out of Lake Pertobe it slowly winds it's way
And on to the Pacific at Lady Bay
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Doesn't bother me if literary experts dismiss my stuff as doggerel and from writing i do not know of wealth and fame
Since i write for enjoyment only and it does not bother me that mine will never be a famous name
I pen rhymes for my selfish pleasure and despite what some of me do say
I do intend for to keep writing i will never give rhyming away
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So many good people serving long prison time
Yet not guilty in any way of any crime
Just for speaking out against an oppressive government in jail they may die
That any good person is not in prison is surely based on a lie
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The beauty we do not have to pay for to see
It is all around you and it is all around me
The beauty in Nature we see every day
The World's greatest beauty it does seem fair to say
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We are what we are with that would you agree
The monarch and president born to die like you and me
For this thing known as success with each other we compete
For our sense of self esteem which can lead to self conceit
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With eyes as blue as a cloudless sky and shoulder length hair of chestnut brown
She lives far south of the Allow the Rose of Kanturk Town
Warrnambool in Victoria thousands of miles south of her Hometown in Duhallow
The beautiful young woman from North Cork does have the inner glow
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Some loves do last a lifetime and some loves end in tears
And the love ache of lost love can linger on for years
And the love that's fastest to bloom is usually first to die
That every love is born to last is surely based on a lie
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Here there is a smile on Nature's beautiful face
I could live till i die in this peaceful place
Just a few clouds of gray in the blue and sunny sky
Without any human buildings to look at nearby
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The magpie lark sings his familiar pee wee
And a magpie is warbling on a black wattle tree
And the dark welcome swallows do chirp as they fly
In pursuit of flying insects in the gray evening sky
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The wisdom in the saying of live and let live does seem obvious to me
And difference does make us more interesting would you not agree
And though we may not agree with what some have to say
To their right to express their opinions to them we ought to pay
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