Francis Duggan Poems

On the shallow waters of Lake Pertobe waders and water birds abound
The white royal spoonbill with dark legs and long spoon like bill is often seen shuffling around
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Doctor differ and patients die
In some cases not a lie
The side effects of prescribed drugs known to make people ill
And in some cases even kill.
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Of past lives and such I don't have an idea
We are born to die that's how life seems to me
Though on the Universal Karma I am one who believe
In life the fruits of the seeds we sow we do receive
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Though not widely known as a writer she is loving and kind
The town's leading poetess has a beautiful mind
So many poems she has written each day she writes more
The widowed grandmother of years six with three score
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If you cannot love yourself you cannot love anyone
This is what the wise woman did say to her son
And though there are many forms of love of which all are aware
Those who have love in them have love with others for to share
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Without any desire to be a great literary name
A true writer does not write for money or fame
Though they too may daydream of some literary success
It is of love of writing they do write nonetheless
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Hibernia's wild shores i may never more see
Since i have left Irelandbut Ireland has not left me
Though i have not seen it for years and from there live far away
In my visualizations i visit it often sometimes every day
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The lakes and dams low in water and the countryside brown, bare and dry
And not a rain cloud in the blue and grey sky
The creeks flowing at a trickle and bone dry every drain
The bare thirsty earth it is crying out for rain
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Quite bored and feeling sad in his way of life
Not happy with his demanding adult children and his overbearing wife
A grandfather in his mid fifties Bored John his nickname
For his prolonged dark moods The whole World he does blame
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We learn as we live from life every day
And we never stop learning only true to say
And every day from life we learn something new
The lessons of life are never of the few
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