Francis Duggan Poems

By circumstance of birth I am lucky I am lucky as lucky can be
I could have been born to poor parents and I could have been a refugee
To the lady of luck I feel grateful she always has been kind to me
I've never known homelessness and hunger and I've never known poverty
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Everyone for themselves and God for us all
One of the more cynical sayings that I can recall
Often used by the self centred in their promotion of greed
Their idea if you do help out others in life you won't succeed
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You laugh the world laugh with you, you cry you cry alone
An old saying still quite relevant and it's relevance well known
You feel down and dejected don't seem to have a mate
But when you feel in joyous mood with you they celebrate.
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Hundreds of small moths around the orange street light fly
And a boobook owl calls on moonlit trees nearby
And the sounds of the night are around everywhere
And how pleasant to walk out in the cool night air.
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I once was a man driven by ambition
But the dreams i had were really only small
And the moments of my life i thought were memorable
Now don't seem so memorable when them i recall.
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Though the years may leave us looking old and gray
Life's more pleasant surprises with us seem to stay
And when the long gone years we do recall
Some of our childhood memories still the best of all.
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The story I am about to tell you it well may be true
For the one who told it to me for to give him his due
Is one who does not make up stories nor neither is he
One prone to imagine it would seem to me.
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When some good mates fall out only loathing lives on
And all respect and trust between old friends is gone
Hate can be love turned upside down it is said
And only resentment lives on when the friendship is dead,
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He abused his powers though in that he had a choice
For all wrongs against others there is a huge price
For to pay to Karma that is Karma's way
And though Milosevic is deceased the price he did pay
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The pride of Australia's first people here's something of which we can brag
Red and black with a big moon of yellow the great Aboriginal flag
It should be the flag of Australia with the stars of the Southern Cross
That we tend to overlook Indigenous history and culture for us all seems such a sad loss.
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