Francis Duggan Poems

Christine Gaunt the woman who bought Steve and Annie Durie's house
I used to work for them before I moved to live near Mt Rouse
She emailed me about Steve and Annie's wombat Bob perhaps now in his prime
And living free in Kongwak and having a good time.
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In life may you be happy and your biggest worry small
For one day the high and non achievers to the reaper's scythe must fall
And then to you it will not matter not one little bit at all
If you are one of the forgotten or others your fame recall,
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Human males with big egos are not hard to be found
One might say of them in numbers they abound
Egotistical males dismiss as effeminate males who are gentle and shy
And that they feel challenged by cultured people not hard to understand why
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Is your life so boring that you must celebrate
The success of your hero a true sporting great
One who does not know you or you never may meet
And one with a big ego brought on by self conceit
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I've loved Mother Nature since I was a boy
And a walk in her World I always enjoy
The songs of her birds and buzzings of her bees
And the soughing of the wind in her bushes and trees
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The moorhen and black duck swim in a dark pool
Of the Merri river close to Warrnambool
And grey shrike thrush on blackwood tree whistle and sing
On the fifth of September in the early Spring
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He looks so proud with his younger woman walking hand in hand on the street
The macho bloke with the big ego the one known as Mr Conceit
In his mid to his latter fifties his muscles through his tightly fitting shirt bulging out
Broad shouldered he talks rather loudly like a rooster he does strut about.
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Is there more to life than to be born to die
And do those who believe in a hereafter believe in a lie?
For not one deceased person has come back to tell
Of a hereafter World or of heaven and hell
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The pee wees are Australians as Aussie as can be
In Town parks and country paddocks they sing pee wee pee wee
With the colours of the magpie many know them as magpie lark
Familiar black and white birds even in the City park
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On the meaning of life we do differ and on few things we seem to agree
The World as it appears to your eyes seems so very different to me
You talk about the life hereafter and of God's kingdom somewhere in the sky
Your right to your beliefs that is your right a right to you none should deny
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