Francis Duggan Poems

The best years of my life have been lost to time
And for me like all rhymers there will be a last rhyme
Like all other life forms i was born to die
This happens to be fact and fact never lie
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Such beautiful weather for April in the far southern Fall
Going by the keepers of weather records the warmest Autumn of all
Since the keeping of weather temperatures began
Near a century of Autumns ago in time quite a span
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The World human population is on the increase
And in the future with more people to fight wars the less chance of peace
And Mother Earth's resources will be stretched with more mouths for to feed
And with more homes needed for more people the future for wildlife does seem bleak indeed
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People who feel marginalized human society can grow to hate
These are the people our flawed Governments and in our attitude to difference we can create
The Boston Marathon bombing brothers too had a mum and a dad
And like all children are as children they were not bad
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He is a happy fellow Laughing Jim
There are few if any as happy as him
Good to his children and good to his wife
One of those characters larger than life
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She was born and raised as Margaret Buckley in Kippagh in Ballydaly from Millstreet Town some three miles of roadway
In marriage she was known as Margaret Daly and in Clonfert in Duhallow her last remains does lay
I know she had two brothers and two sisters The Buckleys left Kippagh many decades ago
All we have left of the past are our memories and time does become everybody's foe
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Her husband left her to raise their children not a task any woman would enjoy
Two girls of seven and eight and a six year old boy
Whilst her ex husband lives with and makes love to another woman in a bigger town miles away
She has to work to make ends meet for food to buy and bills to pay
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This idea of being self sufficient is like trying to make a phone call on a disconnected phone
Since most people cannot live for self alone
Like people with children to educate their children on school teachers depend
And the World's saddest person is the one who does not have one friend
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I only can hope i have not seen my last Spring
The great gift of life is a wonderful thing
I want to live on for as long as i can
And die in my sleep without pain as a very old man
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The power to change the World is in your mind
If you can live as a person good and kind
And from one in need of helping never turn away
The Human World better for you living in it does seem fair to say
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