Francis Duggan Poems

I have lived in many places since i left Millstreet
And people of different races and cultures i have worked with and did meet
And though different from me in their beliefs and thinking i found them to be okay
Take them as you find them as the wise one did say
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I only can tell you of what my eyes do see
Of the beauty of Nature that is all around me
On a drizzling Spring evening with only a slight chill
From the lookout above the Lake of Tower Hill
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If there is a god that god is for everyone
And not for the billionaire his wife and their daughter and son
And not for the president the queen and the king
Though their praises the gullible masses do sing
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If you do help those of helping in need
For your good Karma you plant the good seed
Compassion is a creature of the mind
To some it comes natural for to be kind
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Will there come a time when war will be a fading memory
Of an unenlightened age of human history
When those of different beliefs will live in harmony
Though in my lifetime this may never be
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For many years i have been a rhyming buff
And i am one of those who has penned reams of stuff
The rhymes keep coming to me on notebook paper i pen them down
But never for financial gain or for literary renown
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He surely has lived the best part of his life's span
And he sure will not die as the town's wealthiest man
Eight times a grandfather divorced by his ex wife
But he is one who makes the most out of life
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At left wingers he would like to throw bricks and stones
He spends too much time listening to Alan Jones
Those with different views to him he chooses to despise
His kind may grow older but they do not grow wise
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Who can say in life what of us is ahead
We live for a short while and are forever dead
Though we have our life choices as some like to say
Destiny in our lives has a huge part to play
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There is a slight chill in the freshening coastal breeze
But a pleasant enough day of around sixteen degrees
Across the blue sky scattered clouds of light gray
And the sun shining bright on this October day
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