Francis Duggan Poems

The life journey I travel won't take me to renown
I'm an ordinary man in an ordinary Town
And ordinary people I meet every day
Like me they live life in an ordinary way
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For the sins of the father do not blame the son
You can only blame him for any wrong he has done
To another person for that he should feel shame
For the sins of his father him one cannot blame
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Why tell me what is right from what is wrong
Or to what groups I should or should not belong
To since I am one who can make up my own mind
On how I should live my own way through life I find
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The clock on our lives it keeps ticking away
And for many today it will be their last day
Time for anyone of us does not seem to wait
And on each one of us there is a use by date
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At times during the night they make a lot of noise
Above my bedroom on the galvanize
The males engaged in a territorial fight
They hiss and growl as each other they claw and bite
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The boys and girls I grew up with I may not see again
Quite young in my memory they ever remain
But I may not know them now were we to meet
We'd pass by as strangers on the big Town street
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A male scarlet robin on lower branch of tree
In the wood-land not many as pretty as he
With dark head and dark back and scarlet red breast
Lovely to look at but as a songster not one of the best.
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Deceased in name only our deceased friends not gone
From us forever in our memories they live on
As long as the faculty of memory we retain
Our departed friends not truly deceased with us they remain
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I know that climate change is for real not an environmentalist lie
One of Western Victoria's largest lakes Lake Bolac is almost dry
Perhaps down to twenty per cent of capacity and dwindling by the day
The remaining water in it from the original lake shore now does seem far away.
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In the old graveyard in Millstreet Town Paddy McSweeney's remains lay
He truly was a gentleman in every sort of way
An old citizen of Church Street and a very well liked man
As human life it does go his was a lengthy span.
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