Francis Duggan Love Poems

I love this Land Australia of gum and wattle tree
This vast and sunlit Continent is home from home for me
And though I come from a distant Land when I have had my day
Than underneath Australian soil where better place to lay.
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I love the countryside bordering the rural town
And the warbling of the magpies just after sundown
And the cawings of the dark little ravens on the tall headland trees
Their sharp calling carrying in the freshening breeze
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Great stories of love people love to recall
But unconditional love is the greatest love of all
The sort of love that a human to another human cannot give
Though your dog will love you for as long as she or he live,
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I love time out with Nature and I love peace and quiet
To walk along the gravel path in the evening sunlight
When the wild birds are singing and Spring is in her prime
And even memories of such inspire the soul to rhyme.
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Of Arrogant males I have grown tired I meet one or two every day
One reason why I do love women is that they are different to men in every way
We would have less wars if women were leaders and a far better World to live in
With females in positions of power pragmatism would have a big win
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It's a troubled World we live in the World of today
But love with peace and justice only decades away
In fifty years or less from now there won't be mistrust and hate
The war lords and the men of war will have passed their use by date.
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Though many with what I say may not agree
I cannot love others if I cannot love me
If you can't love yourself you can't love anyone
That applies to all and that is barring none
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I grew to love Nature when I was a boy
And learning of her ways today I enjoy
And my wonder of her ways only does grow
Yet so little about her I can claim for to know
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If you cannot love yourself you cannot love anyone
This is what the wise woman did say to her son
And though there are many forms of love of which all are aware
Those who have love in them have love with others for to share
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Will you love me when I'm ninety when I'm unsteady on my feet
Will you put your hand in my hand when we shuffle down the street
Or will you have left me for one younger found a new love in your life
For many years now we've been happy together as man and wife
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He would kill and eat their baby birds the songbirds seem to know
So they do their best their very best to frighten off the crow
Their babies from such an awful fate they risk their lives to save
They even mob the bigger bird they are so very brave
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Self conceit and self love are a different thing
The self conceited expect others their praises to sing
But those who love themselves love other people too
Herein lay the big difference between the two
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His marriage is over but he has no tears
For the woman he was married to for just over two years
Though he miss his baby daughter when he comes home from work at night
In his marriage she was his one source of delight.
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She is one of the women who have fallen for James
And for to describe him she uses exalted names
Like Greek God, Apollo and georgeous looking man
But James seems oblivious to the worship of Ann.
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I've been in love with Nature ever since I was a boy
And a walk in Nature's quiet places is always a thing of joy
In woods and Land for Wildlife the wild birds chirp and sing
And the beauty that lives in Nature is an amazing thing
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Not seen as great or special or the leaders of our time
But to the people who love Nature i dedicate this rhyme
They dedicate their free time for the future of human kind
And in the person who loves Nature a great person you will find.
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I would love to go to Africa to see the wildlife there
To bring away from there great memories that with others i could share
To see the Serengeti the World's greatest wildlife park
And hear the male lions roaring and hear the wild dogs bark.
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The passing years has wiped most of his memory
As well as leaving him looking weary, old and gray
But his ageing wife she lovingly cares for him
And she tells him that she loves him every day.
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On bushes and trees it surely does not grow
I ask you what love is since I would not know
A mother's love for her child has got to be real
That sort of love to it as true love does appeal
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For to win the war many must die and the dead forever dead
Forget about making war mate you should make love instead
For making love is very beautiful of love the poets do sing
It is better by far than making war as war is a horrid thing,
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True love in it's prime is a beautiful thing
It's praises in poetry and song we do sing
But the great joy of love sometimes does end in tears
And the ache of lost love it can linger for years
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She was quite young not even in her twenties
And i was two years younger seventeen
And i loved her but the thought of love it scared me
For to the ways of love i was still green.
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Her natural ways you only wish to control
You who cannot love Nature you do not have a soul
Our beloved Earth Goddess the source of the poet's muse
The one who sustains us and her you abuse.
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Why Indigenous people love this Country not even hard to understand
For one like me from far away a green northern Land
In this Land of open spaces scarcely a day goes by
That you won't feel the sun's warmth in the sunny southern sky.
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I do love the music in old fashioned rhyme
The poetry some say is of another time
The poetry that is born of music and song
The poetry that to people who love rhyme belong.
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I do love the Goddess of Nature though to her I never do pray
Her beauty it is all around me I learn from her every day
Yet the more that I've learned about her the more I have come to realize
That there is more far more to Nature her secrets she hides from our eyes
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You who say that you do not love Nature I wonder about you I do
'Tis sad to think you are not a rare one there are many others like you
You claim that Land for Wildlife should be developed for houses and the old growth trees on them cut down
We are in need of far more houses to add to the size of the town
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You who does not love Nature I do feel for you to you a tree is just a tree
It's beauty and value to Wildlife 'twould seem you somehow cannot seem to see
You see it as something that should be cut down the parts unsuitable for woodwork to be used in a fire
The ordinary one thinks in ordinary ways in you there's not much to admire.
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In a World of love of such one can only dream
Joy peace and compassion would reign supreme
The war men would find themselves marginalized
And those who love peace their greatest wishes realized
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We know true love is an affair of the heart
But few loves between men and women last till death does them part
And love often ends in bitter acrimony between man and wife
When they thought early on they would know love for life.
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If to your dog you are respectful and kind
A truer friend than him or her you will not find
Since the love of a dog is unconditional and true
Your spouse may well leave you but your dog will love you
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Love is not a fruit or vegetable in a garden it does not grow
And in their lifetime some the feeling of love never know
It does seem it is a gift of the compassionate and kind
For love there is not much space in the ego swollen mind
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I grew to love Nature when i was a boy
And learning of her ways today i enjoy
And of Nature i learn new things every day
We do learn as we live it does seem this way
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My best years behind me old age of me ahead
And eventually i too will be one of the dead
But i do feel lucky as lucky can be
To live in Australia this Land good for me
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You cannot love your Country if you do not love all of it's races of people as well
And you do not love all of it's races of people by your words i can tell
So when you say you love your Country you believe your own lie
Though you boast for the National flag you would gladly die
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The sound of pop and rock songs on my hearing heavy i find them to say the least shrill
I do love those very old ballads as timeless as the mountain rill
That babbles on down to the river with silver tongue that's never still
Along by the ditches and hedgerows from it's birthplace the lake by the hill
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All of those who love Nature I greatly admire
And of singing their praises I for one cannot tire
But sad to say Nature's friends do seem too few
In saying that I am not saying anything that is new
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You cannot love everyone you know in your side of the town
And some say that hate can be love upside down
That when love ends in acrimony ill feelings set in
In love as in life 'tis not easy to win
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Love of self is important of that there's no doubt
Of it's importance by psychologists and spiritualists it has been written about
But leave it to others your praises to sing
Since too much of anything is not a good thing
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Love is a thing that must be shared by two
How can you love one that does not love you
Unrequited love another name for infatuation that and nothing more
That is something you know of and heard of before.
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Though to my reputation as a writer it has come at a cost
I feel grateful to doggerel without it I would feel lost
Though the stuff I pen won't outlive me failed by the test of time
But what matter it makes me happy for to pen doggerel rhyme
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Of love and it's ways little I seem to know
Though some say between man and woman 'tis a feeling that does grow
And others say love can be born at first sight
On such thinking I cannot tell wrong from right,
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I do love life and I'd like to live forever this World my Heaven of that why should I lie
But I am mortal like all other mortals and the time will come when I too have to die
I'd love to keep on penning rhymes forever but for me I know there will be a last rhyme
I feel happy to survive another Season since I feel that I am running out of time
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The thing known as love of self out there you cannot find
It is born and lives within you in the confines of your mind
In your love and compassion for others it always seems to show
Those who have love of self are nice people to know,
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How can you say that I will love you forever since you only have so many years to live
Much better to say until the Reaper claims my life's breath the love I feel for you to you I'll give
Eighty years of living is surely not forever and with your last breath your love for one with you will die
Immortality when it is applied to humans is just another ordinary lie
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One must pity those who cannot love of happiness they are bereft
As children their gift of love stolen from them and bitterness in it's place left
By callous and unloving parents any love in their young years to them not shown
And how can you learn to love someone if love in your life you've not known.
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It's praises we ought to feel happy to sing
The great gift of love is a marvellous thing
Those who can love unconditionally are blessed indeed
One might say of them that they are a rare breed
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Though the poets and the singers love's praises does sing
The down side of love can be a mentally hurtful thing
And the sorrow of lost love can linger for years
It has reduced big macho fellows to tears
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Love is not one way this much i believe
It is a thing you must give to receive
You cannot love one to you who is cruel
Lack of compassion to dislike the fuel
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The praises of love many does love to sing
And love it can be such a beautiful thing
But the down side of love to happiness can be a thief
And is known to give rise to tears and to grief
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