Francis Duggan Poems

Perhaps one of the very worst sins one could name
Men's crimes against women a Worldwide shame
In parts of the World women are raped, beaten and abused by men every day
Yet the offenders for their crimes are never made for to pay
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Health-wise by what we eat and drink those in the know say
That we can shorten our lives every week by a day
For poor eating and drinking habits in physical well being we pay
You can make out of that advice from health practitioner whatever you may
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Perhaps i would feel a stranger now where i lived as a boy
Where my first lessons from Nature i used to enjoy
Most of the mentors of my childhood in eternal rest lay
And even on those younger than me time ticking away
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Since i myself cannot lay claim to know me
I am not the person you think me to be
Many of the thoughts we create are hidden in the mind
Few wish to be seen in their words as unkind
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Around the flowering bushes and blossoming trees
They fly in the garden and dance in the breeze
Their browns and whites and spotted colours amazing to the eyes
Such things of great beauty Nature's butterflies
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Since greed with them does seem way out of control
Multinational and bureaucratic companies directors are without a soul
They take and they take and in return little give
And enjoy the luxury of their huge profits for as long as they live
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Though life for him financially has never been great
He has never felt as lonely as he does feel of late
Since the woman he loved did walk out of his life
For to become a wealthier and a younger man's wife
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At the Boeing new year swim he is always first in
Mick Collins the fellow with anti freeze skin
For one in his late fifties or early sixties not much younger than me
He is quite a tough nut would you not agree
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Sunshine in the blue sky of clouds woolly gray
On a pleasant and breezy early January day
The flute of the magpie in the park by the bay
Earthly Utopia from this place cannot be far away
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He is anti social that much he admit
And he lacks in humor and he lacks in wit
With his human frailties he constantly fight
The one who will never be in the limelight
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