Peggy pond church biography templates

When I was a child I climbed here
at sunrise, barefooted among the grasses.
I searched for arrowheads among the ruins
and stood wondering on the rims of the broken kivas.
I had no language to say what it was that moved me,
a wisdom of rocks and old trees, of buried rivers,
of the great arcs and tangents of sky and mountain .

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Peggy Pond Church wrote these words in 1946 in “Morning on Tseregé,” a work destined to become her signature poem. They immortalize her sensitivity to the beauty, the spirituality, the mystique that is New Mexico. No poet or author has captured it better in poetry or in prose.

In tribute to her ability, Peggy was awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts in the category of literature in 1984.

Margaret Hallett Pond, to be called Peggy, was born on an isolated ranch in the Territory of New Mexico in 1903 at a place known as Valmora.

She was the daughter of Ashley Pond Jr., so