Francis Duggan Poems

I know his father John and his mother Marie and his Grandmother Breeda Tarrant from many years ago
And though young Gavin I heard tell of him I never met to know
But sadly of his illness on the Millstreet Town Web Site I read
And sadder now to learn that he is amongst the dead.
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On a damp night in late Winter three weeks from the Spring
On a gum tree in the Townpark a male magpie sing
Near the busy highway where cars and trucks pass up and down
He is piping his notes at the top of the town
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Away from the noisy streets of the far town
Where day and night the noisy traffic buzz up and down
In the wooded hills three miles off of the highway
In a beautiful place it is so quiet today.
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I do love the music in old fashioned rhyme
The poetry some say is of another time
The poetry that is born of music and song
The poetry that to people who love rhyme belong.
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Our date with our destiny awaits one and all
To the scythe of the reaper we eventually must fall
He is not one who respects power, wealth or fame
The pauper and monarch he treats as the same
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In their joy in gold why should I wish to share
Or what Country wins the most gold medals can't say I much care
It is all about winning that and nothing more
And it is all about ego we've heard that before
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He says I have only myself for to thank
If I'm one who laughs all the way to the bank
That's literally speaking I'm a billionaire
One of the highest achievers my type are so rare.
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She has lived forever and will live forever more
And what can be said of Nature that's not been said before
Her beauty the artists and writers inspire
And of singing her praises could one ever tire.
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'Twould seem that he has not lived there for somewhile
Between Joe and his Hometown of Drogheda there's many a mile
In the literary World he is one of note
And no doubt about it Joe Hughes is a poet.
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In private have you ever wept silent tears
When in memory you went back the decades of years
And the lost opportunities that you now rue
Like 'tis said about dreams they do seldom come true.
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