Francis Duggan Poems

At least you stand for something good just going by what you say
And if everyone were like you we would not have wars today
Yet sad to think that those with all of the power are the unenlightened few
We would have World peace and harmony if everybody were like you.
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These boring radio chat shows where women discuss their boring lives
And their unhappy marriages angry hard done by housewives
Who suspect that their husbands are having sex elsewhere
But as you and I too well know that life's not always fair.
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Stand back and leave the one who is without sin be the first to cast the stone
And that's not you Mr President your sins to all are known
If you are all that wonderful as you tell us that you are
Why are you driven around with bullet proof glass in your Presidental car?
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He was a famous Glasgow poet and he lived and died in glory
And a World renowned author too perhaps you know his life story
He died in his late sixties in 1844 but his poems outlive the ages
And he lives as a poetic great in the literary history pages.
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We don't know what it feels like to be seen as important and we've never known a glorious hour
And we are known as the common people the people without power
Others make for us decisions of which we do not agree
Those who have the cheek to tell us that we know of liberty.
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She was in high school in the early eighties but now some gray in her brown hair grow
And though she is only in her mid thirties the years on her already show
In her twenties she looked quite lovely but she has been putting on weight
One might say she looks a bit plumper though health wise she is feeling great.
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I fancy I can hear the robin singing at the dawning of the day
As a red Summer sun is rising o'er a brown hill far away
And a new mown meadow scent sweetly of the sweetness of hay
And the memory of such beauty for a lifetime with one stay.
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Man and woman take care of yourself though that you do not say
That is Moses unwritten commandment the one that you obey
Though people like you are plentiful there are many more like you
Those who show genuine concern for others as ever are the few.
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A poet if ever there was one is Christie the Queen of Song
She sings her songs on her guitar whilst others sing along
Her singing voice distinctive is so beautiful and clear
And she is one of those that you've heard once that again you want to hear.
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Sad news a news that travels far and wide
And I was told of how young Kevin Hickey died
On the Shannaknock road of his car he lost control
And the reaper claimed his body not his soul.
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