Francis Duggan Poems

I can visualize the sweet scent of hay
Under a blue sunny sky with just a few clouds of gray
A gentle freshening breeze on a nice summer's day
In July by the mountains from here far away
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An ageing fellow from Duhallow is all that i ever can be
Though the old fields i used to love dearly in memory i only now see
The waterways bogs and the mountains such beauty i can visualize
Though far from places of my young years i may witness my last sunrise
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In life we do have our ups and downs as success through money we pursue
But if you cannot love yourself you cannot love anyone a saying i believe to be true
Money may bring you friends and admirers and you may be seen as a great success
And though money is seen as quite important it cannot buy you happiness
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In a far away place by a far away town
The birds chirp and sing as the sun is going down
In the cool of what has been a nice summer's day
The coastal paddocks scent sweetly of freshly mown hay
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To you good tidings will come if in hope you keep faith
For the turn of luck comes to all of those who do wait
Those who laugh last laugh loudest as some like to say
The hard times will fade to a far better day
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Much to my disappointment i have come to realize
That in ways i am not that different to those i criticize
The human failings in others that i do see
Are the failings i have come to dislike in me
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The first man and woman were Adam and Eve
Millions of Christians world-wide do believe
But what is true to them seems a fallacy to me
Suppose we all do have our own reality
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She is so in love with her ideal sort of man
With tattoos on his arms and big muscles and full of youthful elan
He walks out hand in hand with her his pit bull terrier on a leash at his right hand side
As he struts with the swagger of sheer manly pride
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When the blackbird's melodious voice you hear
You know it's Springtime of the year
For only in Summer and all through Spring
The gold bill bird is known to sing
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Seven billion people for Mother Earth to feed
Even for her that does seem a huge task indeed
Yet to the one who supports us and food for us grow
The respect she does warrant from us to her we do not show
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