Francis Duggan Poems

Out there in Nature's wild kingdom the struggle is for to survive
And the strongest and the fittest can only hope to thrive
In a time of Global warming chances of extinction multiply
And people as well as all of life endangered as the Planet becomes more dry,
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In time and distance the past seems far away
But the old fields i love are still near me today
And my friends of the past in my thoughts do remain
And in my flights of fancy i meet them again.
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Tis true by our silence with his lot we agree
But going on six years incarcerated without trial does seem all wrong to me
That the Australian Government has not spoken on his behalf shows how weak they must be
They have allowed others to rob him of his humanity
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She said around the edges you seem a bit rough
For to say the least you pen some negative stuff
In the literary World you'll never be one of note
So many poetasters for every poet
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Karina she says she has had it with men
She has raised five children from her marriages to Tony and Glen
Both were heavy drinkers and both her did beat
She reckons that decent men are hard to meet
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Out there on the dark hillside the hunting fox does cry
Perhaps he's out seeking a mate under the starlit sky
Or perhaps he calls to his own kind to proclaim his territory
So much to learn of Nature that's how it seems to me
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He looks on those different as way out and strange
But at his stage of life he is not going to change
The whole World it is black and white in his eyes
He may be growing older but he is not growing wise
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You may feel despondent and wish you were dead
But don't quit on life's battle good days are ahead
Financially embarrassed at the present maybe
But your luck will change you'll know prosperity
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Young Carlos from Madrid we may not see again
The rumor is out he has gone home to Spain
He felt a bit homesick his English not good
And he struggled for to make himself understood.
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Some six billion people in the World of today
And millions are born poor and raised in the hard way
And like Nature's Seasons people come and go
In this the only World we know of or know,
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