Francis Duggan Poems

If there's a God that God is for everybody and in every good person that God you will find
And if there's a God that God is not judgemental but understanding very wise and kind
The fundimentalists say that their God is a true God and those who pray to other Gods to false Gods pray
The true God than their God must be far kinder a far superior God in every way,
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Another warm day in the height of Summer and even warmth in the freshening breeze
And no talk of a cool change in the weather forecast a high today of 32 degrees
El Nino is around the thirsty fellow sucking up every dropp of moisture he can find
The water levels in the town reservoir are steadily
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The men who built this City at rest forever lay
They worked hard for to support their wives and children and they earned their every pay
They are the unsung heroes and they lived it the hard way
And we owe them for the prosperity that we enjoy today.
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The artist Jim he still dreams of wealth and glory
He has been painting for some forty years
He did his first canvas as a teenager
Still his lack of success often has him close to tears.
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When i return to Koroit it must be in the Spring
When the paddocks are looking greener and the nesting wild-birds sing
The sun is shining bright today in the old Country Town
But the countryside around it is looking rather brown.
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Anyone can be a rhymer but poets are born not made
And so few for their writing can hope for to get paid
And millions of would be writers into oblivion fade
The failures are so many and so few make the grade.
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To that quiet and old green countryside the Seasons come and go
Where the waters of the Finnow into the Blackwater flow
In Drishane in Millstreet Parish a place as old as time
A place known for it's beauty that inspire the bards to rhyme
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They call him Mr Lucky he is a lucky man
He and his wife on holidays in Tokyo in Japan
On the profits of his gambling the horses he bet on always seem to win
And winners always grinners and with joy he does grin,
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In the age of celebrity worship our own small gods we do create
And mortals like ourselves in the flesh we worship and celebrate
People who are good at golf and tennis and various other games of ball
We give them their big egos though pride can come before a fall
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The brown one from Tahiti is only twenty three
And she is feeling homesick for her Island in the sea
From here even a long way thousands of miles by sea or sky
Yet her great love for her Island she never would deny
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