Francis Duggan Poems

His name will never be on a war memorial wall
For to arms he did not answer the Nation's call
His motto is live for as long as you can
Hero worship is worthless to a dead woman or man,
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The Poet of the Gipsies Federico Lorca was his name
His works of literary genius live to his enduring fame
His tragic death a tragedy for his Nation of Spain
But the legend of the great one is destined to remain
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Life for him has been a struggle since he first saw light of day
And he has followed in his late dad's footsteps of him 'twould be fair to say
His life journey so far has led him inside the jail-house gate
And in his life for him so far nothing to celebrate.
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A person different to some others that is her only crime
One with a lawful addiction obsessed with penning rhyme
Even by some who know her she is misunderstood
Her poems have a rare beauty and many of them good,
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He lives in the town in the brown Countryside four hundred miles or more
From where he would prefer to live the town by the ocean shore
In visualizations he feels the sea spray on his face and he sees the big waves roll
The coastal man is always a coastal man and he has a coastal
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At every poetry reading our poet he is there
His poems with the like minded quite willing to share
For each poem he reads there is a loud encore
And he bows and obliges when they ask him to read more.
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Where everyone are seeking their own renown
She is in her sixties a stranger in town
With a brown hair dye she does cover her gray
But otherwise she does age in a natural way,
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Hard workers are long lived that does seem a lie
For the harder you work the sooner you may die
You drive a car hard though it's engine and body is strong
It quickly wears out it does not last that long
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For every Nationality and every race
A fair go for all is something we should embrace
A fair go for everyone of every creed
The right to a fair go everyone does need
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Ell Briddley she knows of the hard side of life
For many years she has been a battered wife
Her late husband Jake often bashed her and their only child Joe
He succumbed to cancer some five years ago.
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