Francis Duggan Poems

When i am long gone and forgotten and of me not one memory
The magpie lark in the Town parkland all day long will sing out pee wee
And life it will go on as usual and the Seasons will come and go
And the creek born in the high country downland to the river will flow,
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Though love can have it's many disappointments it is indeed such a beautiful thing
And of love the poets write of in their poetry and of love so many songsters one hear sing
Without love human society could not function there are so many forms of love in life
The love that parents display for their children the love that is the bond of man and wife.
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He walks the by-road that is lit by moonlight
As he sings his way home in the still of the night
A man in his fifties his hair silver gray
And surely he has known a far better day.
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So what if your best efforts are never good enough
You have always hung in there even when the going was tough
Without losers there could not be a winner that always is the case
Though the glory always does go to the winner of the race
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The threat of global warming to human kind is a real threat indeed
And the warnings of climate change experts we'd do best for to heed
Dirty factory chimneys to the sky puffing up smoke
The anger of Nature why do we provoke?
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Our Government is making us prisoners of fear
Of the threat of terrorism from them we often hear
Our sense of security and liberty in a clandestine way they destroy
For them to cling to power that does seem a good ploy
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Between warring Countries hostilities do not last
And 'tis true your friend of tomorrow may be your foe of the past
But life goes on as usual that's how it seems to be
And we make friends with the old foe to fight our new common enemy
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I walked entranced
Through a land of morn
The sun with wondrous excess of light
Shone down and glanced over seas of corn
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In the Spring of their lives many do dream of fame
That millions of people would know of them by name
But few day dreams like all dreams do seldom come true
Though fame is a thing that so many pursue.
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For the Stolen Generation the present Australian Government cannot be held to blame
But more of the pity or more of the shame
That the present Prime Minister to Australia's indigenous people will not apologize
A clever politician he may be but he is not very wise.
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