Francis Duggan Poems

Long before most of diurnal wildlife from slumber awake
In the mountain wood two hours before daybreak
The loud unmelodious cackling of the kookaburras one does hear
Though some distance away they do seem rather near
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When he said poets as ever in the few
He told me something i already knew
Insightful wisdom poets with others do share
It is a pity indeed that they are so rare
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He can be verbally insulting since that can be his way
But it does take all kinds as some are known to say
His is the loudest voice in the bowls club
And his volume is no less at the local pub
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Most people's thinking on land and the ownership of it to me anyway seems all wrong
For how can we own something that owns us since to the land we do belong
She grows the food we need to live on without her we could not hope to survive
How can you own the thing that feeds you the thing that keeps you alive
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Even in winter nature can wear a pretty face
Where i am today such a beautiful place
With winter sunshine on the beautiful trees
And only the slightest of chill in the breeze
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Of life there is so much to learn and know
And the karma we reap is the karma we sow
At least anyway that's how it seems to me
Though with that sort of reasoning many would disagree
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Nostalgia the thing that does move him to tears
For happier days and for happier years
When he was much younger, healthy and carefree
His happier times live in his memory
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Compassion and kindness out there you will not find
They live and they bloom in the beautiful mind
And it is something that has been said often before
Of compassionate and kind people the world in need of more
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It is true that rhyme sonnets are easy to write
And easy to read and easy to recite
But a well written rhyme sonnet is a beautiful thing
As the rhyming words in it to the reader does sing
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Where the precious top soil in the thirsty wind is flying
In the Horn of Africa millions of people are dying
The cattle there starving bones showing through the skin
And people young and old there hungry, weakly and thin
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