Francis Duggan Poems

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2171.
Still All The Same

Your blood pressure high and you feel rather ill
You go to the doctor he prescribe for you another once daily pill
To add to the numbers of pills you already take
From your sort the doctor lots of money does make
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2172.
Live For Your Country

What a patriot should be is based on a lie
Live for your Country for it do not die
Far too many mothers have wept for a dead son
Wars by dead heroes have never been won
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2173.
Magpie Is Warbling

A magpie is warbling on a July night
Under a starry sky in the moonlight
With his breeding borders for him to defend
At this time of year he treats none as a friend
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2174.
Rill

Flowing from high Claramore at the foot of Clara hill
Through flatter Claraghatlea the silver tongued rill
In old rushy fields babbling night and day
Flowing to the big river to the sea far away
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2175.
I Know All Too Well

I know all too well my rhymes are a bit rough
And that as a writer i am not good enough
And since of my writing limitations i am all too aware
Of the positive and negative things others say of me why should i much care
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2176.
On Shayna Jacks And Internet Trollers

Performance enhancing drugs in sport one cannot condone
But internet trollers ought to leave the Australian swimmer Shayna Jacks alone
To the Australian swimming authorities she must pay for her sin
By being banned and maybe stripped of major swimming medals she already did win
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2177.
Sliabh Luachra His Nickname

He has lived in Australia since he was twenty three
And Sliabh Luachra he says he may never more see
From the Kerry Town that borders Cork of Rathmore
Next year in February he will be eighty four
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2178.
Prisoners Instead

Of good and honest people in the World there are quite a share
But honest and moral politicians are becoming more rare
A sexual attack on two women by two male Australian politicians of late
There is nothing in this for male politicians to celebrate
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2179.
Her Harsh Words On Me

She said to me Francis you will go to hell
For insulting poetry in your doggerel
Even for writing bad rhyme you will never know of literary renown
You are not an asset to your side of the town
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2180.
A Role Model

She does not use hair dye to cover her gray
Or anti ageing creams to smooth Her wrinkles away
Though in her sixth decade she is what you see
Quite an attractive woman for one of sixty three
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