Francis Duggan Poems

When I tell you what I think you go off in a huff
Only few can write poetry anyone can pen stuff
You tell everyone you are a great poet though that should not be for you to say
You should leave it to others to praise you it sounds better that way
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A member of the Irish Workers Party and a Socialist and a true Republican
And he loved Ireland and the Irish Language Neil Healy was a very special man
A family person and a quiet achiever he was one worthy of far greater note
I'd like to write a poem in his honour were I born with the genius of a poet.
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In life we never stop learning as some like to say
And from Nature we learn something new every day
As a teacher any human with her could not hope to compare
Though with us her secrets she never will share
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The eldest daughter of Denis and Elizabeth McCarthy her beauty I recall
When she was young in Pound Hill the fairest one of all
Though the years go by so quickly and fleeting is our prime
The memories of her beauty remain undimmed by time
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He called himself the greatest in that he wasn't wrong
For in the Boxing Hall of Fame Muhammad Ali does belong
In his prime he floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee
One of the all time boxing greats with that most would agree
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I like the rhymes of the old fashioned rhymers the men and women of ballad and song
One can sense the rhythm and music in their verses to the bardic tradition they belong
Though in the twenty first century seen by many as out of fashion reading the rhyming stuff I still enjoy
Easy to understand not esoteric I've loved them since I was a school going boy
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The one who knows all about Nature in the Human World you won't find
For her secrets and they are many she does not share with human kind
And though some many things of her and her knowledge on her like to recall
But if with you they are quite honest they will tell you they know little of her at all
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'Tis only in fancy I see Clara Hill
And hear the babble of the silver tongued rill
That flow down the high fields of green Claramore
At the start of it's journey to the Atlantic Shore.
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Though something few bother to read or recite
The stuff I do pen anybody could write
To rhyme is so easy as easy as can be
Most words can be used as rhyming words as most would agree
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With their long thin hind legs music they do create
And from late Summer to early Fall they sing for a mate
The mating calls of the crickets one cannot get wrong
To the grasshopper family they do belong
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