Francis Duggan Poems

Though my worth as a rhymer i have reason to doubt
No shortage of things for me to write about
To write rhyme is easy as easy as can be
Anybody can do it you can have that from me
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The salmon are swimming upriver in the cold gray damp of the dawn
To the gravel beds of the rapids to dig out their spawning beds to spawn
November is their breeding season in the cold and wet Northern Fall
When yesterday's flood is subsiding they are answering to Nature's call.
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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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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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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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There is a bit of a difference between good and great
Though in some ways to each other they does relate
And there is a bit of a difference between friend and mate
And there is also a difference between Nation and state
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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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Turned the dark brindled stag-hound of years only two
To hunt and kill wildlife he was bred to do
And what stag-hounds are good at Turner was too
But unfortunately he chased and caught and killed a protected species a kangaroo
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