Francis Duggan Poems

To your own self try to remain as true
And always give credit to who it is due
And leave it to others your praises to sing
Though nowadays to many self praise an in thing
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In thousands of kilometers far north of this southern shore
In the countryside between Millstreet and Rathmore
The nesting songbirds of Nature are singing today
As the rain drizzles down from the low clouds of gray
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Introduced from India's big cities such a Delhi and Bombay
In the suburbs of Melbourne birds seen every day
Of yellow legs, yellow bills, dark heads and tails and mostly light brown
Though seen in the countryside mostly birds of the town
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To live as a good person is all i wish to be
And help anyone who does need help from me
Each day brings me closer to my life's journey's end
I am at a time of life when i need every friend
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I write rhymes for enjoyment but in truth i can tell
That from writing i have never done financially well
I send my rhymes to anblog by others to be read
If i depended on them to live of hunger i would be long dead
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That greed is addictive only true to say
The millionaire dreams of becoming a billionaire one day
The demon greed many in life does pursue
That much always craves more happens to be true
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So little about Nature of i can claim to know
But my wonder of her only does seem to grow
But every day of her we do learn something new
And her lessons in truth are not in the few
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There are winners and losers in the World every day
It is all about winning and will always be this way
Of the losers not good enough many do say
And for every winner a lusty hooray
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There are winners and losers in the World every day
It is all about winning and will always be this way
Of the losers not good enough many do say
And for every winner a lusty hooray
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Though not all of Nature's creatures held in high esteem
They do serve some purpose or so it does seem
On some species us humans wish only ill
And given the opportunity them gladly would kill
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