When I Look At You

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    When I Look At You

     Growing up in west Texas
    where  you can see for miles and miles

    where people still wave
    and
    people still smile

    practicing ropeing
    on that wooden steer
    those memories 
    I will always hold dear

    cotton fields with bowls of white
     stars filled that west texas sky at night

     theres not much that can surpass
    the smell of alphalpha
    and prarie grass

    cattle ,horses and bails of hay to
    I think of those days
    when I look at you

     field lark and quail sing their song
     I could listen to them all day long

     red tail hawk soaring high above 
    I can hear the cew
    of a morning dove

    the sound of a squeeky old windmill
    when i think of those days 
    I can hear it still

    I use to go swimming
    in an old water tank

    when i look at you
    it makes me think

    of those west Texas days long go
    these are some of the things 
    I want you to know

    after a long day of hoing johnson grass grandma  would bring to us a cold glass of homeade ice tea

    can't you see
    what those memories mean to me

     after supper
    just before it got dark
    while sittin on the front porch
    grandpa would remark

    thats his favoroite time of the day
     and
    in the background 
    I could hear grandma say
    to come inside it's gettin to dark
    to play

     you still may not have a clue

    I think of those days when i look at you.


    2009 HC Holbert a work in progress 

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    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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