Francis Duggan Poems

Though love can have it's many disappointments it is indeed such a beautiful thing
And of love the poets write of in their poetry and of love so many songsters one hear sing
Without love human society could not function there are so many forms of love in life
The love that parents display for their children the love that is the bond of man and wife.
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He walks the by-road that is lit by moonlight
As he sings his way home in the still of the night
A man in his fifties his hair silver gray
And surely he has known a far better day.
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The creeks down to a trickle most water dams are dry
And water-birds not to be seen to elsewhere they did fly
And elsewhere could be anywhere hundreds of miles from here
To this place the nearest large body of water is not anywhere near.
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The stream from the mountain lake flows through the bracken
It babbles on forever by night and day
Down through the old fields and by many a hedgerow
On to the bigger river far away.
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It may be in your young years or when you are old and gray
But for you just like me there will be a last day
A day when our ears become deaf to all praise and all scorn
A day we live to since the day we were born
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Fifteen years ago the prettiest in the old town
But with dark brown hair dye she now cloaks her gray
The passing years has stripped her of some of her beauty
A fading rose that's life as some do say.
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In his nostalgic flights of fancy he sees them every day
The old hills by his Hometown twelve thousand miles away
Far north of this southern city even as the crow does fly
Thousands of leagues of ocean thousands of miles of sky.
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She yearns for adventure and wealth and renown
In the bigger World out there distant from Hamilton Town
In Melbourne or Sydney or further from home
Like London or Paris or New York or Rome.
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Save for a few small pools of water lake Cartcarrong is dry
And only dark mud is now what meets the eye
Only a mudflat where a large body of water has been
The signs of climate change everywhere to be seen
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The climate is changing so fast and extinction for human kind may come all too soon
And people cannot live elsewhere on outer space Planets such as the moon
Or other Planets way beyond the stars
Such as Jupiter, Pluto, Venus or Mars
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