Francis Duggan Poems

In fancy i can hear the silver back crow
Cawing on highest branch of a beech tree near where Finnow waters flow
Through fields flat and rushy babbling on it's way
On towards the Blackwater bound for Youghal Bay
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You have it in you for to be good and kind
Compassion and empathy if you search for you will find
In life it is said you must give to receive
Though not everyone on such reasoning believe
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You have it in you for to be good and kind
Compassion and empathy if you search for you will find
In life it is said you must give to receive
Though not everyone on such reasoning believe
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A silver or bronze medal a great achievement but something not all does choose
Where for the winners of gold so many have to lose
Out on supreme glory in sports greatest test
Among the World's elite athletes only one can be best
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Perhaps i was born for to live in this way
For to pen a few more doggerel every day
The rhymes come to me i just pen them down
But not for financial gain or for renown
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Around the World the havoc she wreaked on t v to be seen
The wild child of Nature her name was Irene
On the east coast of the U S she blew great buildings down
And left death and destruction behind her in many a city and town
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The hidden frogs sing in the watery drain
And the gray clouds of evening are pregnant with rain
The day it is cool just eleven degrees
And the currawongs calling on the higher trees
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They may be in prison for wrong they have done
But the mother does stand by her daughter and son
Though they have brought shame on the family name
She will not disown them despite their ill fame
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I told of my problems to one i did know
Though any sympathy for me he did not show
He said to me seems like your problems have grown
But i do have heaps of worries of my own
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For all of us there is a final day
And for me that cannot be too far away
Since i have seen many Seasons come and go
And time it has become my greatest foe
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