tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80331356185975388662023-11-29T04:27:25.463-08:00rhymeonlyFrancis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.comBlogger12034125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-54987580510687347652022-06-28T15:33:00.002-07:002022-06-28T15:33:31.869-07:00That Nature Is A Great TeacherThat Nature is a great teacher only true to say<div>Of her we does learn something new every day</div><div>Her wonders are many and her secrets not few</div><div>And every day of her we does learn something new</div><div>The more we learn of Nature the more we come to realize</div><div>That of her we know little this is not a surprise</div><div>In her flora and fauna great beauty to see</div><div>To view to the viewers that is financially free</div><div>The students and fans of Nature her praises does sing</div><div>Such joy to so many she always does bring</div><div>Yet of many more human friends she is in need</div><div>The one who helps Mother Earth to grow a beautiful flower from a tiny seed</div><div>That Nature is a great teacher as a truism remain</div><div>The meaning in this it's own self does explain.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-55398989577844544632022-06-28T15:22:00.000-07:002022-06-28T15:22:01.330-07:00Too Much PraiseFor their physical beauty people are greatly valued but having said this so are prize winning sheep<div>There is a truism about physical beauty that it is something that is only skin deep</div><div>Most people wealthy and famous for their physical beauty in many ways are not nice people at all</div><div>Lacking in kindness, compassion and selflessness one may say of them on their ways quite small</div><div>Hard to blame them if they are egotistical since so many people their praises do sing</div><div>Too much praise does not give rise to humility as it can be quite an ego inflating thing</div><div>In the wealthy suburbs of any town or city selfless sort of people are quite hard to find</div><div>Among the wealthy, celebrated and famous not many of the caring and compassionate kind</div><div>In a Human World where for one to be a big winner many sad to say are destined to lose</div><div>One truism that remains about losing is it is something anyone does not choose</div><div>You will not hear of many wealthy celebrities volunteering their money and time where poor people dwell</div><div>Only the very best of good and caring people devote their time to those in Earthly Hell</div><div>Too much praise it is not good for the ego admiration can go to the admired one's head</div><div>In the minds of the egotistical the self only matter and humility sad to say is truly dead.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-30022842597842249442022-06-27T15:42:00.003-07:002022-06-27T15:42:28.755-07:00Carry On Living<div style="text-align: left;">Carry on living you will be long enough dead </div><div style="text-align: left;">Though you have seen many Seasons there may be many more of you ahead</div><div style="text-align: left;">Quite a wealthy person you have known of financial success</div><div style="text-align: left;">But your life is the greatest gift that you possess</div><div style="text-align: left;">In the depths of winter not far from the Spring</div><div style="text-align: left;">Despite the cold weather life's a wonderful thing</div><div style="text-align: left;">In your heated room good weather for watching your favourite program on t v</div><div style="text-align: left;">You do not know it tough how good life can be</div><div style="text-align: left;">You have seen many Winters though the weather is cold</div><div style="text-align: left;">But carry on living though you are growing old</div><div style="text-align: left;">The weather as it is will not have a long stay</div><div style="text-align: left;">And Spring is drawing nearer with each passing day</div><div style="text-align: left;">Carry on living as the wise one does say</div><div style="text-align: left;">Life is a great gift well worthy of a hooray.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-12443775928743198642022-06-27T15:14:00.000-07:002022-06-27T15:14:14.612-07:00Why Waste Your PrayersIf you believe in an afterlife of heaven and hell<div>Why waste your prayers on the soul who did not live honourable and well</div><div>In an afterlife heaven their sort don't belong</div><div>The people who in their lifetime did to others wrong</div><div>Why waste your prayers on those who profit from crime</div><div>Since this in truth would be a complete waste of time</div><div>Leave them with satan for their sins to pay</div><div>They deserve to be in hell for their evermore stay</div><div>Why waste your prayers on one who bashed his partner or wife</div><div>And gave to his children a terrible life</div><div>Nothing about their sort that is honourable and brave</div><div>From satan's horror chamber prayers them will not save</div><div>Why waste your prayers on those who have lived by crime</div><div>This would seem only a great waste of time.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-41848136729738636742022-06-26T16:01:00.001-07:002022-06-26T16:01:59.525-07:00June In The Moyne ShireOn a weather temperature high for the day of seven degrees<div>The chill of Winter and June is in the evening breeze</div><div>The sun behind gray clouds is hidden away</div><div>It has only been seen for a brief while today</div><div>June in the Moyne Shire is a cool and wet time of year</div><div>Though each passing day brings the first of Spring near</div><div>To the coastal country of the Peek Wurrong</div><div>Post solstice the days in time grow slightly long</div><div>But the warbling of the birds who sing all through the year</div><div>The black and white magpies always a joy for to hear</div><div>Once seen and once heard one never again get them wrong</div><div>To the piping shrike family they does belong</div><div>In the gray of the evening in the sunless sky</div><div>The starlings in large flocks towards their roosting trees fly.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-74438154574752914892022-06-26T15:48:00.000-07:002022-06-26T15:48:34.554-07:00GeneralizationThat most men abuse their partners, wives and children is just not true<div>This is taking from good living men what is their due</div><div>On matters like this some people tend to generalize</div><div>People who believe all they read and hear are gullible and not wise</div><div>It is true that some men abuse their children and partners and wives</div><div>And give to those who should be near and dear to them miserable lives</div><div>But these sort of males are of the few</div><div>And this is not saying anything that is new</div><div>It is true not all women are good and not all men are bad</div><div>But that good men are the victims of generalizations is to say the least sad</div><div>For the sins of the few the many have to pay</div><div>In a fair Human World it would not be this way</div><div>In the Human World for generalization there should not be a place</div><div>But you will find it in nationality, religion, culture, gender and race.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-1154454752128544342022-06-25T15:27:00.001-07:002022-06-25T15:27:39.688-07:00It Is Something I Love DoingWithout hope of literary fame or money for pay<div>I am one of those people who write rhymes every day</div><div>But if i did not enjoy doing it in truth i can say</div><div>Years ago i would have given rhyming away</div><div>I have never referred to myself as a poet</div><div>Nor do i feel worthy of any literary note</div><div>Though i held some literary ambitions going back in time</div><div>When i was much younger in my physical prime</div><div>Every day more rhymes i happen to write</div><div>And email them on to a literary site</div><div>Going back in time to half of a century</div><div>I have penned thousands of rhymes since nineteen seventy three</div><div>It is something i love doing in truth i can say</div><div>For if i did not enjoy doing it i would have given it away.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-9528284873002097682022-06-25T15:16:00.002-07:002022-06-25T15:16:53.518-07:00In June By Clara MountainIn Claramore wood in the dawning gray<div>The wildbirds of Nature are singing today</div><div>In the high fields by Clara around their grazing mothers black faced lambs romp and play</div><div>No joy like youthful joy does seem true to say</div><div><br /></div><div>The songs of the finches so pleasant to hear</div><div>In June by Clara Mountain a nice time of year</div><div>The high fields looking resplendent in their beautiful flowers</div><div>That have come to bloom after recent Summer showers</div><div><br /></div><div>Of singing Nature's praises it seems hard to tire</div><div>She is one that so many people admire</div><div>The artists and writers she never fails to inspire </div><div>The creator of natural beauty and wind, water and fire</div><div><br /></div><div>From the high fields by Clara such natural beauty to see </div><div>Of Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra westward to Rathmore and Knocknagree</div><div>The artists and writers in their words celebrate</div><div>The natural beauty Nature does create</div><div><br /></div><div>A natural beauty that sadly does lose out to time</div><div>In June by Clara Mountain close to Summer's prime</div><div>When the migratory dark winged swallows are chirping as they fly</div><div>In pursuit of flying insects in the Summer sky.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-55413366418279856312022-06-24T15:22:00.000-07:002022-06-24T15:22:05.699-07:00On Tom HanksOnline i read of how Tom Hanks healthwise is going through a bad spell<div>That the wealthy and famous actor is not feeling well</div><div>In public his hands seen to be shaking if you believe what you read</div><div>Such stories of the wealthy and famous for media moguls to huge profits does lead</div><div>Tom Hanks is a celebrity of i only does know</div><div>But i cannot say of him that he has the inner glow</div><div>Since such a wondeerful and selfless gift only belong to the few</div><div>And this is not saying anything that is new</div><div>Tom Hanks is a good fellow it does seem this way</div><div>Of him anything negative i do not have to say</div><div>Though i am a cynical sort of a man</div><div>And of any celebrity i am not a fan</div><div>But having this said i hope Tom is feeling okay</div><div>That he soon will not be where the deceased are does lay.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-13462649109824094482022-06-24T15:09:00.005-07:002022-06-24T15:09:45.172-07:00In June In DuhallowI may never more hear the soft lowing of a cow<div>To her calf in a field by white river Finnow</div><div>In the quiet of a June evening just after sundown</div><div>In the fading twilight just west of Millstreet Town</div><div>June in Duhallow in a nice time time of year </div><div>The flute of the curlews a joy for to hear</div><div>The migratory long curved billed waders home from far away</div><div>To raise their young in the bog where they themselves first saw light of day</div><div>With the sun on their dark wings chirping as they fly</div><div>The swallows are chasing flying insects in the sky</div><div>To their home countryside they return to breed every Spring</div><div>The wonders of Nature quite an amazing thing</div><div>In June in Duhallow everywhere lush and green</div><div>And Nature at her very finest is seen.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-83876230157385810132022-06-23T15:37:00.001-07:002022-06-23T15:37:50.558-07:00It Lives In Your MindIt lives in your mind like a memorable song<div>Wherever you go to your past with you goes along</div><div>The friends of your younger years you remember today</div><div>Old memories live on as some does like to say</div><div><br /></div><div>Since your journey in life took you far from your first hometown</div><div>Many highways and byways you have been up and down</div><div>We all have our choices in life for to make</div><div>And we all have our own journeys to undertake</div><div><br /></div><div>You have long shed the last of your nostalgic tears</div><div>For your friends of the past that you have not seen for years</div><div>Like you they have forged new friendships and life does go on</div><div>And all we have are memories of Seasons long gone</div><div><br /></div><div>The past may have gone but the memories remain</div><div>Of faces and places you may not see again</div><div>And you remember them the friends of your younger years who like you have outlived their prime</div><div>Though you have not seen them for quite a long time.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-1991640933168921632022-06-23T15:24:00.000-07:002022-06-23T15:24:48.265-07:00The Power To Do GoodYou will not see her or his name in the hall of fame<div>Even on their own side of the town theirs is not a well known name</div><div>Admirers and prizes they never do win</div><div>But they have the power to do good in them within</div><div>Always willing to help the financially down</div><div>Those doing it tough on their side of the town</div><div>By helping the people of helping in need</div><div>For their future good Karma they plant the good seed</div><div>Most of the famous and wealthy for kindness not known</div><div>Narcissism it seems has claimed them for it's own</div><div>You will never see them drive in a second hand car</div><div>On the ladder to success they have climbed far</div><div>Though many admire them as those who do win</div><div>The power to do good they does not have in them within.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-66117994841663615182022-06-22T16:51:00.000-07:002022-06-22T16:51:23.605-07:00The Old Fellow DanIn the City of Warrnambool the happiest man<div>He greets strangers as friends the old fellow Dan</div><div>People who have known him for years says he has always been this way</div><div>As he greets everyone with a cheerful good day</div><div>In his early eighties a balding silver haired great grand-dad</div><div>One can say of him that he never looks sad</div><div>For sadness in his mind there is not any space </div><div>He always does have a big smile on his face</div><div>He grieved at the passing of his wife Jo</div><div>She died of cancer going back eight years or so</div><div>Though great grief at her passing of for many months he did know</div><div>It did not kill in him his bright inner glow</div><div>Wherever old Dan is joy is to be found</div><div>He carries it with him and shares it around.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-73760262058514295832022-06-22T16:36:00.000-07:002022-06-22T16:36:00.470-07:00The Boys Of The Fifties<div style="text-align: left;">The boys of the fifties are ageing by the day</div><div style="text-align: left;">Where the deceased are some of them does lay</div><div style="text-align: left;">And some in their first hometown choose for to stay</div><div style="text-align: left;">And some are growing old in towns and cities far away</div><div style="text-align: left;">From the parks where as teenagers ball games they did play</div><div style="text-align: left;">Of the what was only memories remain true to say</div><div style="text-align: left;">To the boys of the fifties time has become their foe</div><div style="text-align: left;">With only memories of their better years long ago</div><div style="text-align: left;">On looking back the years time seems to have gone fast</div><div style="text-align: left;">And memories are all that remain of the past</div><div style="text-align: left;">It is true about time it does tick on and on</div><div style="text-align: left;">At midnight this evening today will have gone</div><div style="text-align: left;">And just like the rhymer who writes a final rhyme</div><div style="text-align: left;">Eventually everyone runs out of time.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-78336375687882740772022-06-21T16:11:00.000-07:002022-06-21T16:11:40.187-07:00Money Speaks Every language<div style="text-align: left;">Money speaks every language as some like to say</div><div style="text-align: left;">And on your lifestyle has a huge part to play</div><div style="text-align: left;">And though the praises of money many may sing</div><div style="text-align: left;">It does mean a lot but it is not everything</div><div style="text-align: left;">And though those with lots of money have achieved great success</div><div style="text-align: left;">It cannot buy you life the greatest gift any human being does possess</div><div style="text-align: left;">The billionaire like the pauper will eventually surrender to death</div><div style="text-align: left;">For everyone there is a last living breath</div><div style="text-align: left;">You are poor in many ways though you are one of the wealthy of the town</div><div style="text-align: left;">If you never do help the financially down</div><div style="text-align: left;">For the greatest wealth is in the mind</div><div style="text-align: left;">Of those who are caring and compassionate and kind</div><div style="text-align: left;">Money to you many good things may bring</div><div style="text-align: left;">And though it is quite important it is not everything.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-65755511294167811352022-06-21T15:53:00.000-07:002022-06-21T15:53:45.325-07:00It Is Each To Their Own<div style="text-align: left;">It is each to their own as some like to say</div><div style="text-align: left;">I add to my numbers of rhymes every day</div><div style="text-align: left;">Not for any literary fame or any money for pay</div><div style="text-align: left;">Just something i enjoy doing with me it is this way</div><div style="text-align: left;">I have never laid claim to the title of poet</div><div style="text-align: left;">Nor am i one worthy of any literary note</div><div style="text-align: left;">I must be addicted to the penning of rhyme</div><div style="text-align: left;">It is something i have been doing for quite a long time</div><div style="text-align: left;">The rhymes that come to me in notebook i write</div><div style="text-align: left;">And email them into a literary site</div><div style="text-align: left;">Though no shortage of rhymers in any village or city or town</div><div style="text-align: left;">For very few in rhyme not any money or literary renown</div><div style="text-align: left;">But it is something i hope to be doing until the day i does die</div><div style="text-align: left;">If i did tell you differently it would be a lie.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-59470377724672686592022-06-21T03:38:00.000-07:002022-06-21T03:38:08.255-07:00When People Ask MeWhen people ask where i come from i tell them Millstreet<div>In the green countryside where the waterways meet</div><div>And where old Clara Mountain as ever looks down</div><div>On Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra and Millstreet Town</div><div>Where i grew to love Nature as a young boy</div><div>And learning of her ways today i enjoy</div><div>In the home of marsupials and eucalypts and many species of birds not seen elsewhere</div><div>In a Land different to most Countries of the big World out there</div><div>It was my yearn for travel that brought me far south</div><div>Of the fields of the badger and waterways of the brown trout</div><div>The accent of Duhallow today i retain </div><div>A thing from the past that in me does remain</div><div>It was my yearn for travel made a migrant of me</div><div>Suppose in life we do follow our destiny.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-43293112043067985122022-06-21T03:24:00.001-07:002022-06-21T03:24:32.870-07:00On GrudgesYour past has gone from you forever so why dwell on negative things of your past<div>Bitterness to your mental health harmful due to a grudge in your memory that does last</div><div>If you hate someone you suffer mentally from your loathing this is only saying what happens to be true</div><div>The person you hate does not mentally suffer the one who mentally suffers is you</div><div>A mental grudge can give rise to physical illness this is what the well informed say</div><div>The one who is harbouring grudges cannot bring joy to anyone's day</div><div>If you do not have any joy in you then joy is a thing you cannot share</div><div>This is only saying something i am sure that most people of are aware</div><div>For the negative things in our memory a physical price we may pay</div><div>Mental anger may give rise to mental illness health problems can begin on this way</div><div>Those who for years nurse their mental grudges can physically become quite ill</div><div>And some even break Moses Fifth Commandment which clearly states thou shalt not kill</div><div>Those who cannot forgive other people themselves also cannot forgive</div><div>There is only truth in the saying of the often quoted live and let live.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-39397154850000375822022-06-20T03:55:00.000-07:002022-06-20T03:55:36.022-07:00On Bird BrainIs it telling you something that you already know<div>That she or he are not stupid your average crow</div><div>I have seen little ravens dip hard crusted bread in water to soften to eat</div><div>Of brain power for birds quite a remarkable feat</div><div><br /></div><div>Just look at the nest that most birds do create</div><div>Using their beaks and feet as tools some of their achievements are great</div><div>Most species of birds are intelligent they can even use tools</div><div>For to get them their food birds are not fools</div><div><br /></div><div>To a human being deemed lacking in intelligence many people refer to as bird brain</div><div>Why this is looked on as an insult is beyond me to explain</div><div>Since this should be seen as a compliment birds are quite intelligent indeed</div><div>And<b> of survival skills they are not in need</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The intillegence of birds i have come to realize</b></div><div>But anything in Nature never cease to surprise</div><div>Of those who refer to a person as bird brain derogatory words they use every day</div><div>Unbeknown to them are paying this person a compliment in truth one can say</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-92181285294195998682022-06-20T01:11:00.003-07:002022-06-20T01:11:56.790-07:00You Keep On Keeping OnIn life you are doing it financially tough<div>But you refuse to believe that you are not good enough</div><div>To be one who will never know of success</div><div>Being dismissed as a failure does not cause you any stress</div><div>Though anyone your praises never does sing</div><div>You believe in itself this is not a bad thing</div><div>Since to be ignored does only add to your will to succeed</div><div>Of ambition you are one who is not in need</div><div>Of your life's hard luck stories you never complain</div><div>To try and to fail it is never in vain</div><div>You are one of those who with hope does keep faith</div><div>As is said good things come to those who do wait</div><div>Hope for times better from you has not gone</div><div>With life every day you keep on keeping on.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-85605237303522873862022-06-18T16:54:00.000-07:002022-06-18T16:54:02.674-07:00Happiness May Not Be Your DueIf you are a billionaire happiness may not be your due<div>But it is better to be wealtly and unhappy than poor and unhappy happens to be true</div><div>Though that money speaks every language as a truism remain</div><div>The meaning in this it's own self does explain</div><div>Money may not make you happy but it can make you financially secure</div><div>And of a better lifestyle for you does insure</div><div>But it is not your antidote against worry and stress</div><div>And is not your guarantee of a life of happiness</div><div>One of the happiest people i know of in the town</div><div>Is one who knows how it feels to be financially down</div><div>He is financially better off than he used to be today</div><div>And he feels happy that lady luck is now smiling his way</div><div>Happiness is a thing one cannot buy or sell</div><div>You may not be one who is happy though you are doing financially well.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-10871816208894845572022-06-18T16:09:00.000-07:002022-06-18T16:09:02.732-07:00Through Long Years Of Absence<div style="text-align: left;">Through long years of absence my past is with me</div><div style="text-align: left;">In fancy the gray fog on Clara i see</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hiding the steel cross on it's summit that stand</div><div style="text-align: left;">By old memories the flames of nostalgia are fanned</div><div style="text-align: left;">Like many of my sort a migrant is the best i can hope to be</div><div style="text-align: left;">And of good or bad memories few of us are free</div><div style="text-align: left;">We brought them with us from a land far away</div><div style="text-align: left;">And they will be with us until our lives final day</div><div style="text-align: left;">Memories of where i grew to love Nature as a young boy</div><div style="text-align: left;">And learning of her ways today i enjoy</div><div style="text-align: left;">Her lessons to us are not of the few</div><div style="text-align: left;">And every day of her we learn something new</div><div style="text-align: left;">To the green countryside where the waterways meet</div><div style="text-align: left;">On my flights of fancy i return to Millstreet.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-63229644773757381032022-06-18T15:52:00.000-07:002022-06-18T15:52:15.318-07:00No Better ThanAre us humans no better than any of Nature's creatures since we create borders to defend<div>And the enemy of your enemy can become your friend</div><div>In wars over borders millions of people have died </div><div>And millions left with lifetime crippling injuries their dreams of happiness destroyed</div><div>Yet life is the greatest gift anyone does possess</div><div>Far greater than any other form of success</div><div>Yet in war human life is taken cheaply where people wish on each other ill</div><div>And Moses fifth commandment states thou shalt not kill</div><div>War has taken place in Countries Worldwide the latest is in Ukraine</div><div>Where the super power Russia are inflicting on it's people suffering, death and pain</div><div>On either side thousands of people have died</div><div>And millions of Ukranians for refuge have fled to Countries Worldwide</div><div>That in many ways we are no different to Nature's creatures only true to say</div><div>Since wars are being waged over borders in the World every day.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-74325034975514009562022-06-17T17:21:00.000-07:002022-06-17T17:21:37.091-07:00Do Not Take Yourself Too SeriouslyDo not take yourself too seriously<div>You are expendable though you do not believe so</div><div>Many who thought that they were irreplaceable</div><div>The World gets on without them though they died years ago</div><div><br /></div><div>Wealthy and World known famous people </div><div>We read and hear of their deaths every day</div><div>Though they are grieved by their fans and admirers </div><div>Life goes on without them true to say</div><div><br /></div><div>Famous entertainers and elite sports people</div><div>With fans and admirers Worldwide</div><div>Death will not treat them as special</div><div>Far greater than they are have died</div><div><br /></div><div>Do not take yourself too seriously</div><div>Since you are only a mortal after all</div><div>Those in life who climb the highest </div><div>Have the furthest for to fall.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8033135618597538866.post-62746795468841036582022-06-17T17:07:00.004-07:002022-06-17T17:07:50.103-07:00A Brave ManPhysically he is not the man that he used to be<div>Since a motor car accident in two thousand and three</div><div>Left him h horrific injuries which he did survive</div><div>He says he feels happy just to be alive</div><div><br /></div><div>Going back in time a nineteen year span</div><div>Dark haired and handsome a fit and healthy young man</div><div>In his early twenties near the prime of his life</div><div>The woman he loved and was to marry did not become his wife</div><div><br /></div><div>It is true about life on some it is not always fair</div><div>Post his accident that left him in a wheelchair</div><div>His to be wife with him did not stay</div><div>Some loves do not last the first big test life works on this way</div><div><br /></div><div>In his battery operated wheelchair in the park or on the street</div><div>He is one that i happen to meet</div><div>He always does greet me with a cheerful good day</div><div>Despite misfortune one who is not angry with life of him one can say</div><div><br /></div><div>In his early forties he lives on his own</div><div>And though of bad luck in love and life he is one who has known</div><div>The challenges of life he willingly embrace</div><div>With a positive attitude and a smile on his face.</div>Francis Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155458455869315949noreply@blogger.com0