Francis Duggan Poems

It takes all sorts of people to make up human kind
But in the worst type of person some good you will find
What is known as the flawed gene it is in us all
On the journey of life there's many the pitfall,
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The patterings on the galvanize of the heavy rain
And water is gurgling in the storm-water drain
With the warm and dry Summer with each day drawing near
It is such a beautiful sound for to hear
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Extinction is forever that seems sad to say
And more life forms becoming extinct every day
Like trying to re-create the paper we've given the fire for to burn
The dead to life never more ever return
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In fancy I hear the mass bell ringing the faithful in to pray
And the choral singers singing hymns in the old church far away
And though I have lost the gift of faith the memories with me stay
Of sunday mornings in the old Town long before my hair turned gray
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The road from Duhallow for me not the road to renown
And worse for me I'd feel like a stranger now in Millstreet Town
Where the changes keep happening with each passing day
From the the Town by old Clara I live far away.
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Budj-Bim for Mt Eccles it's aboriginal name
And Budj-Bim or Mt Eccles are one of the same
The Lake Condah area was once home to the Gunditjmara tribe
A people that interest the historical scribe
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Billions in money being wasted by Governments in war
Whilst millions of malnutrition dying in Countries afar
The gap between the haves and the have nots is growing every day
Yet where opulence dwell there is moral decay
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In my flights of fancy I often do hear
The male snipe o'er the bog in the Spring of the year
With his whirring wings he makes a drumming sound
As in the night sky he flies around and around
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You ask me is there a God would not know would not lie
For the answer to that ask one other than I
Call me an infidel, atheist or agnostic or call me what you may
But to an invisible God I do not kneel to pray
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In others pain we were born and in our own pain we will die
And that does apply to everyone as well as to you and I
Created out of pleasure 'tis pleasure that gives rise to the birth of every girl and boy
And pleasure surely is a thing that all of us enjoy.
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