John McCornack Poems

Early day pioneers could make a living with
A team of mules and a good 160 acre farm
They could provide their family with clothes
Along with much love and a good red barn
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Welcome to the wonderful World of Cow
It is a world where you always know how
Learn how to live a life on a red dirt road
It is in this world I live so I have been told
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I will open with a 300 bid
Grandpa than said 'I will go to 320'
For another pinochle game had just started
On that yellow covered table I loved so well
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Genuine love arrives in so many subtle configurations
To some it maybe the simple bonding with a new born
To some it is those hours spend fishing in a farm pond
Still others just the simple dreaming about an unicorn
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Sagebrush only grows in the absence of water
Without water there is a need for windmills
I love rugged land dotted with sagebrush
For it is a chance for more beauty and thrills
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What if horses had the pulpit on Sunday morn
Would there be as many people staying home
Or would our Churches be filled to the rafters
To meditate with a horse that is free to roam
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Grandpa was a very big man
That always loved his cotton
He loved to work his ground
His memories not forgotton
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Step back in time.. See the 1909 Football Team
Look into faces and see how they used to dream
Kiowas and early Pioneers on the same porch
For these are the people who carried the torch
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The sleet came down in bucket fulls
Until the ground and water turned white
And the temperature went down until
Ducks walked on water during the night
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There laying hidden against a late summer hue
With green trees shutting out most of their view
Yon can feel the color of wild roses where they lie
As if they were following with a pentrating pink eye
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