Francis Duggan Poems

Farewell to the poets and poetesses of Nature
Their beautiful rhymes are a gift of the heart
In literature they will always be remembered
For their promotion of Nature in which they played a huge part.
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Born in the wrong place they must battle the odds
The forsaken people of the lesser gods
For months on end the sun has burned in the clear sky
And the crops did not grow since the ground was too dry,
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The clock on his life it keeps ticking away
And he is looking older and looking more gray
And with far more wrinkles than he had last year
Still he likes to sing and he still likes his beer
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All through the Spring i hear him at daybreak
His voice is a voice one can never mistake
The song of the blackbird is a song that i know
It always takes me to the decades ago
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For their financial futures they have no cause for fear
These C E O's of big corporations who are paid millions in money each year
In a World where millions are dying of hunger and millions live in poverty
The unequal distribution of wealth seems ridiculous to me
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Amongst the dense foliage him i cannot see
The goldfinch who sings on the sunlit gum tree
And house sparrows the birds who do not have a song
They chirp in the hedge as they do all day long.
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In his Limerick had a name to celebrate
Ahane's own Mick Mackey was a hurling great
Assured of his place in Hurling's Hall of Fame
In death as in life his a legendary name.
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What matters if you are an honest person behind your back what others of you say
As long as their opinions are not libelious by ignoring your feedback is a better way
Than feeling mentally heated about it just shut such negative people from your life
Do not accost them in a fit of anger as their type only seem to thrive on strife,
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For those who caused such suffering in Iraq poor karma for themselves they only sow
Before they gave the go ahead for an invasion of the consequences one might think they should know
They well may say now that it is not our fault but for the Iraqi bloodbath they gave the go ahead
They may have brought an end to cruel old Saddam but they cannot give back life to the dead
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She ran her father's pub for many years in the Square in Millstreet Town
A quietly spoken person who never sought renown
Her name then Marion McCarthy and her i do recall
She now rests in peace forever death does come to us all.
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