Francis Duggan Poems

The sun is brightly shining the frogs sing in pond and drain
These shy and tiny amphibians their songs tell us of rain
And Spring is all around me the beauty of the Spring
The wattles in their yellow flowers the birds whistle and sing.
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He has not had an easy life of late
He has battled his demons of despair
Just one of those who has known hard times
And his type of person not rare.
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The grey shrike thrush whistles on the wattle bough
I wonder in some fifty years from now
Will somebody one of his descendants hear
Sing in the wood in the Spring of the year?
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He thinks he's a gift to all women at least that is what he believe
But thought has proved him wrong as usual for himself he only deceive
The most narcisstic person that i know himself he does only delude
Most women do not find him attractive and his chat up lines to them seem rude.
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He has slept in a tent and in a swag and he has slept in a hut
But never in a hotel or motel the man from Caramut
And out there in the outback he often sleeps in his car
A young man in his thirties from home he does live far.
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She has had a couple of face lifts with hair dye she covers her gray
But clearly she is ageing she has known a better day
She does look well for her years but no turning back the hands of time
The Seasons pass so quickly for us no second prime.
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Those who call this a new Country they sure have got it wrong
It was old in the Dreamtime the time of dance and song
When the Indigenous people had their corroborees
Up there by the high woodland in the shadow of the trees
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So beautiful and clever and gentle and wise
The woman with golden locks and chestnut brown eyes
And yet unaffected by guile or conceit
The nicest of those in their twenties who live in our street.
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The by road off of the highway it winds on up and down
Along the mountain valley that leads to Somewhere Town
A narrow and twisty roadway that test your driving skill
Up through the old brown valley and by the stony hill.
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I do not dislike them and i can honestly say
That apart from the views they hold they are okay
But tis our different opinions make us interesting some are known to say
And we all look at life in a different way,
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