I Am One Who Has Poem by Francis Duggan

I am one who has done a bit of traveling far south of Hibernia's windswept shore
Far south of the countryside west of Millstreet and Clara overlooking Claramore
In Claraghatlea where i was born and raised in i would be a stranger to many today
But i do miss the old fields of my young years old memories die hard it does seem this way
In those old fields i fell in love with Nature when i was young a primary school going boy
And learning of the ways of our Earth Mother is something to this day i do enjoy
Old memories of what with us do linger and mental pictures of the past with me remain
And in some of my nostalgic flights of fancy i hear the birds sing in the wind and rain
When the fields are in their first Spring flowers of April and the swallows home to breed from Lands afar
Fly low close to the grass in pursuit of flying insects they travel by air as fast as a car
I am not what one would call a well traveled person others have seen more of the World than me
So many Lands and so many great cities that in my lifetime i will never see
I live far south of Claraghatlea in Millstreet where from a boy i grew into a man
And i may not be returning to Duhallow to grow old where my life's journey began.