FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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FC 11 G-36

Peggy Godfrey

Gift From The Swallows

Here they are! This mroning The swallows have returned Checking out the old nest sites And new ones they've discerned. Aerial acrobatics Gusty chirping noises Like kids arriving at summer camp Excitement in their voices.

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Peggy Godfrey

Amy

We spoke of our children Of boys, of girls Next to me sat Paul Whose daughter was killed. An accident with Tragic aftermath Left folks stunned By her untimely death.

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Peggy Godfrey

Two Bullets

The old sheepshearer Lies on my living room floor While I massage His sore, tired shoulders Fifty-nine fleeces Into the '93 shearing season. An almost imperceptible noise Dogs bark, I look up Your face is framed In the glass pane Of the front door. You eat supper, saying little.

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Peggy Godfrey

Summer Rain

Mountains, totally obscured No blue sky, no sun, Plainly puddled evidence Of haying plans undone. Bales are settling in the mud Creating their own slime Flies swarm over this decay They relish haying time.

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Peggy Godfrey

We Are Many, We Are One

As I unload my horse thunder sounds in the boiling north-bound clouds above me like potatoes rolling.

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Peggy Godfrey

Whoa, Now!

"We can't have weeds on public lands" Who decided that? Was it God's own verdict Or some zealous bureaucrat? Who's cursing weeds on public lands? Last summer I saw "them" spray Dressed in white from head to toe In gloves and boots were they.

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Peggy Godfrey

Free Verse

After I perform my rhyme Gather up my coat and purse Someone asks, as an afterthought "Why don't you try free verse?" I'm not opposed to rhyme or prose. Upon deep introspection I searched to find why I prefer rhyme And exposed this odd connection.

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Peggy Godfrey

A Day's Work

Ya know, when ya got a project Plan A is the plan of preference Plan B or C Or parts of all three Give a fella some alternate reference.

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Peggy Godfrey

Classified

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Peggy Godfrey

A Prayer

Each day My spirit wings its way Closer and closer To Your magnificent presence Gaining new strength from each more difficult journey Gaining a new vision from each day's expanded view.

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Peggy Godfrey

A Miracle

Story.

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Peggy Godfrey

Poet Of The Earth

Sometimes the combinations Of the what and who we are Are paralleled in Nature If we dare to look that far. Not always do we find ourselves In wisdom, strength, or size But always with a purpose If we look with spirit eyes.

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Peggy Godfrey

When I am being I am like flowers a river, wind My brightness, boldness turbulence, joy, strength, gentleness limitations Are part of the breath and heartbeat Infinite pulse of the One Source.

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Peggy Godfrey

Story.

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Peggy Godfrey

Biodiversity

Managers of public lands Research and meeting dudes Invent six-buckle vocabulary For folks with five-buckle boots. Ranchers, environmentalists Have to learn the current lingo I'm barely getting fluent In equine, bovine and Dingo.

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Peggy Godfrey

Help Ain't Always Help

Used to think I'z the only one Who lied to work alone Or with a handy partner or two On jobs too big for one. Ever bog down doin' a job When someone comes along Offers to lend a helping hand Then everything goes wrong?

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FC 11 G-36

Peggy Godfrey

A Page Turned

On Tuesday In Ruston, Louisiana The last living witness Of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's Dramatic demise Lay in a hospital.

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Peggy Godfrey

Order-Buyer Blues

"Got his batch of cattle You'll really like 'em fine Gathered 'em up all over I wish they all was ine. Young and sound...fine cattle Well, I guess a few are old.

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Peggy Godfrey

Sometimes

I ask for reassurance That the moments of my days Count within Your kingdom Write joy upon Your face Though I see but partially Results from every choice I'm a lamb among Your many Keen to hear my Shepherd's voice.

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Peggy Godfrey

A Clear Definition

Story.

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Peggy Godfrey

Divorce

Long ago we set out upon life's path together. Somewhere along the way I noticed You were no longer at my side. A weight on my back Caused me to think Perhaps I was carrying you.

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Peggy Godfrey

The Real Question

Story.

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Peggy Godfrey

Glenwood Canyon Drive

Nature loves a cranny A hint of shelf or ledge There we find the spruce tree Probing rock to hold an edge. There're places in the canyon Where trees lined side by side Stand sentry o'er the river In rock layers way up high.

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Peggy Godfrey

Daisy's Pups

Story.

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Peggy Godfrey

September

Sullen gray Soggy day Severs summer From September Purple asters, gold chamisa Glow like Christmas farolitas Line each roadway.