Francis Duggan Poems

There ought to be a Worldwide ban on whale hunting since all species of whales are becoming rare
And of the justification of killing them in the name of so called science the enlightened and aware
On the sensitive issue of whaling will tell you that this is all lies
That killing in the name of science of marine mammals has always only been a guise
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She has great natural talent one who is born to write
And in The Starlite Cafe I do visit her site
Her name is Grannyrosie with words she has a way
And poets are born and not made some have been known to say.
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He is in his late sixties one might say getting old
Though the story of his life's journey it may never be told
Yet for one of sixty seven he looks fit and okay
He jogs before his breakfast a few miles every day.
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I've never once seen them on land though from the shore I see
Them with folded wings from dizzy heights diving into the sea
And then they rise out of the waves and upwards again fly
These hunters of the ocean who stalk their prey from the sky.
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Money can buy you almost anything it can even buy you time
Bruno Grollo the billionaire Melbourne builder and his wife both well past their prime
Are in China receiving anti ageing stem cell treatment in their quest for a second youth
Those who deny that money is not important are only denying the truth.
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Every Sunday she is in church praying and singing hymns to God
And in her prayers she asks her God to remember the hungry and the downtrod
And to take care of our soldiers who fight in an awful war
Against those awful people in a Land from here so far.
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Have you ever felt so maudlin that you went to a quiet place
So that others would not see you with tears streaming down your face
And you ask yourself am I going mad or what is wrong with me
From my invisible cocoon of sadness through the darkness I can't see?
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Invited to The White House for tea and a sleep-over but in a New York hotel at a desk clerk he threw a phone
And George W Bush the so called one without sin withdrew the invitation he could not be seen to condone
An act of unprovoked thuggery by one he had invited to tea
Renowned actor Russell Crowe not seen as worthy to dine with the U S President and his family.
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The lark he is carolling in the gray morning sky
He shrinks to a small speck as upwards he fly
Till lost to view in the clouds though one still can hear him sing
The wonder of Nature is a beautiful thing.
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I recall her with eyes of blue and shoulder length hair of brown
A young woman of great beauty the Rose of Millstreet Town
I wonder from Duhallow does she still live far away
She went off when I was a boy to the U S of A?
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