Francis Duggan Poems

The fields in their beautiful wildflowers of May
In green old Duhallow from here far away
And nesting birds sing in grove and on hedgerow
In Cullen where Araglen waters do flow
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Though others may think you have failed in the test
Take pride in the fact that you have done your best
If you had a choice to be best you would choose
But for every one winner many have to lose
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He is showing his years now in wrinkles and gray
And clearly he has known a far better day
But trying to chat up younger women is a thing he enjoy
And he has earned his nickname of The Randy Old Boy.
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On Summer evenings just before sundown
They used to meet on the hill overlooking the town
And as darkness did fall in the warm evening breeze
They often made love by the acacia trees
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Did Christ walk on water why bother ask me
Since I only believe what my own eyes do see
I am a non believer to a God I don't pray
It does take all kind as some are known to say
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Though she need not be short of a man in her life
The man that she loves will not make her his wife
She feels that she never may see him again
And perhaps as she now is till death she will remain.
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Even in big Cities they are known to thrive
It is by their cunning that foxes survive
Despite trapping and shootings and despite poison bait
On their extinction us humans cannot put a date
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The most dangerous of animals in the World you will find
Are not lions, tigers or hippos but us human kind
Since records were first taken the record takers recall
That us human beings the worst killers of all
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You may have been one who has fought in a war
And returned home as a hero from a Country afar
A legend to the patriots in your hometown in every public bar
But this does not tell us anything of the person that you truly are
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As he struggles to cope with financial worries and stress
He feels so unhappy his life in a mess
His wife in an asylum feeling mentally unwell
At present life for him it is Earthly Hell
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