Francis Duggan Success Poems

What is success it has never been mine
In their different ways people it do define
Some see success as money to your name
As a lack of such a barrier to fame
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If you wish to know what success is ask one other than i
For if i told you i did know i would be telling a lie
For success in ways can be viewed very differently
The one who is successful to you may not be so to me
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What is success ask one other than me
On what it constitutes many would disagree
To be wealthy and famous to some is success
Though some others are not that easy to impress
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Compared to many your success in life seems small
But what success means to most is not success to all
You are one who struggles for to make ends meet
In a World where many for success does compete
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He does know the feeling of financial stress
As one of the people of no fixed address
In prison for narcotic usage he knows of homelessness
For him a long hard road back to happiness
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Everyday for success in life people with each other compete
And contented people i do not often meet
In a World where so many strive for financial and material success
Failure to succeed can lead to unhappiness
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On success you and i cannot agree
Those who are successful to you are not so to me
Of the praises of celebrities you love to sing
But success as is said can be a relative thing
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Presidents, directors, managers and c e o's of every big bureaucracy
By their greed for material success help to give rise to inequality
It is a known fact for every new millionaire
That life becomes tougher on the working poor and those on welfare
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Few celebrities who know of success and fame
As they once were are known to remain the same
An old saying perhaps you would have heard said
That success has gone to her or his head
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For my lack of material success i only have myself to blame
Though i never yearn for wealth and for fame
Just one of the literary never do well
Like every old scribbler who pens doggerel
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We read and hear of successful people every day
But i do ask myself what is success anyway
Since on the subject of success many disagree
The one that is successful to you may not be so to me
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Four decades of years past my physical prime
I am one of those who is running out of time
To most people i am one who is not a success
But then anyone i am not out to impress
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From humble beginnings he knew of great success
Became wealthy and famous and lived at a fashionable address
The one who daydreamed of success and renown
Became one of the wealthiest men in the town
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Success, wealth and failure anonymity and fame
One day it will not matter all will be the same
We are only born for to live and die
That's only a fact of life and facts do never lie
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If others you never harm in any way or defame
Then of your social standing why should you feel shame
It matters little what others think of you
To live as a good person your best you always do,
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I do not dislike them and i can honestly say
That apart from the views they hold they are okay
But tis our different opinions make us interesting some are known to say
And we all look at life in a different way,
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People compete for success every day
But different people look at success in many a different way
Though the praises of money and material possesions many may sing
And to young aspirational people this is now an in thing
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Life is what you make of it some are known to say
But for everyone it is not this way
Many living today does stand little chance
Of knowing of success due to birth circumstance
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Like all other life forms us humans are born to die
And what is life about ask one other than i
For of life and it's meaning i cannot claim to know
I have so much to learn though old i do grow
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For success in life most people with others compete
To be best in your neighborhood and best on your street
To work your way up to become the best in the town
On your hoped for journey to Worldwide renown
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It is true what is said about money it can prove a huge test for friendship and love
Of all things in life seen as important it does seem it rises above
If you are one who is short of legal tender your friends in the World are few
When i say money is quite important i am not saying anything that is new
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What is success can anybody tell me since few on what it means seems to agree
The person you look on as successful may not be a successful one to me
Through different eyes we see things very different and your ideas of life different to mine
On what is success we do not see eye to eye on but that you have your own opinions on it suits me fine
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With your idea of success i cannot agree
One only can be the best that one can be
But then suppose we all look at things in ways differently
At least anyway this is how it seems to me
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Of any successes in life i do not have for to tell
I am just one of many who pen doggerel
With words i am one who does like to play
And i add to my numbers of rhymes every day
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There are none of us perfect as most would agree
But you only can be the best you can be
Of the wealthy and famous the majority sing
But success in itself is a relative thing
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For our every mistake in life there is some price to pay
But we learn as we live something new every day
And in life we have many a challenge to face
Things do not always go our way and this is often the case
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At their every success in public they rejoice
The people who love the sound of their own voice
Some of their kind i do know and sometimes do meet
Their swollen egos have their sources in self conceit
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Success and failure in life to me is a lie
As successful you may live but as a failure you will die
Since like all who came before us when the breath of life from our bodies has gone
We become like the billions who have failed to physically live on
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That you are a man amongst me happens to be true
The best sports person in the region this is to give you your due
And of greater sporting success you aspire to and pursue
But remember there is always one better than you
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Though many interesting people i have happened to meet
I have not known of success far south of Millstreet
But what is success one must ask anyway
It has many faces some are known to say
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With your successes in life do not get carried away
Since there are more than enough of egotistical people in the Human World of today
You do seem to feel superior to others of late
Perhaps from too many people telling you that you are great
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As success goes the judgemental would say i have not done well
But i have my own little rhyme stories to tell
Of people imaginary or people i know or have known
But the rhymes i do write they are all of my own
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Any hope of success as a writer from me has long gone
But i enjoy rhyming so i will rhyme on
And hopefully this will be till my life's last night and day
Only in death i will give rhyming away
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It can be quite relative this thing known as success
And on such different people different opinions express
On who is or who is not successful there is no unanimity
The hero or heroine to you may not be so to me
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Nowadays competition for material success with many people is an in thing
I am not a fan of those who their own praises do sing
Enamored by self in their own self conceit
Their sort i do never feel happy to meet
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I am not what you would call a success but i never do beat my wife
And i am one not lacking in humor i do enjoy my gift of life
You laugh and the whole world laughs with you but you always cry on your own
A quote from some very wise person and one that is very well known
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Of my lack of success i have no wish to lie
I am too old for loving and too young to die
The years have left me looking older and gray
And the clock on my life keeps on ticking away
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Have you ever felt that you are a failure complete
One without success on an ordinary street
Of what happens to be quite an ordinary town
Where anyone cannot lay claim to renown
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The desire for the thing known as success the ego seems to feed
Though it is not in everyone in many 'tis a need
For fame and recognition born of financial greed
And because of this Nature condemned to suffer does seem sad to say indeed.
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What matters if you've never known success
If others you cannot seem to impress
Since success and failure eventually lost in the sands of time
To try and fail can never be a crime
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For success in the Human World most people do compete
The unbridled joy in victory the sorrow in defeat
Many yearn for recognition for honour, wealth and fame
But life's so called winners and losers will one day be the same
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Of any success in my life of such I can't name
I'm just a rhymer from Millstreet who will never know of fame
A bloke from Claraghatlea close to Millstreet Town
Though that would not rate as a claim to renown.
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Lack of Success it never does faze me at all
Since compared to many my biggest dream seems rather small
I wish to be happy and little else more
Though to that you may say you've heard that one before
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On what is success so few do agree
The successful one to you may not be so to me
No two see things exactly the same as some like to say
We all look at life in a different way
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