Francis Duggan Poems

Sunshine in the blue sky with a few clouds of gray
So nice to be living on such a nice day
The murmur of the surf waves in the distance i do hear
Utopia to this place does seem to be near
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Wherever i go to my past goes with me
It is living and breathing in my mind's memory
In the chilly gray dawn to warm herself in a field by Millstreet Town
The hare she is racing in her coat of light brown
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We are all of the leaves of the one family tree
But with this way of thinking many may disagree
Does an Aussie on paper make an Aussie of me
When a Claraghatlea fellow is all i can be?
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Your dream of the big lotto win for you may come true
Since your turn of good luck in your life you are due
All good things come to those who do wait as some like to say
Tonight lady luck may be smiling your way
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The moods of the mind to us do come and go
And the gulf it can be great between bliss and woe
Have you ever known the feeling of despair
When your circumstances in life to you seemed quite unfair?
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Only the most arrogant can claim post death of us what lay ahead
We live for a short while and are forever dead
The sheep or the dog or the cow may not know they will die
But are they any less mortal in any way than i?
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This penning of rhyme can be a hungry belly game
It is true what is said that one cannot live on fame
As a young man i often daydreamed that i would be a poet
Quite wealthy and famous and of literary note
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Moneyed people and celebrities the masses do celebrate
But it is those dubbed as the ordinary people who make a Country great
The ordinary people you see every day
Who earn their living in the honest way
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To those i do not like little i have to say
But for to hate anybody it is not my way
In return i pay others the respect they do show to me
To each their own that is how it should be
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Your worth as a writer you often do doubt
But always so much for you to write about
You find inspiration in people you meet
In the pub or the park or walking on the street
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