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An Invitation

Uncategorized / September 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Neil wanders the world in awe – Mirrors and metaphor everywhere. You can join him on this journey with a Poem in your Inbox every day.  Click Here to start today

 

Rule Britannica

Nostalgia, Remembering / July 23, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Mostly musty now Google-buried deep in library stacks and garage sale ‘take it for a dollar’ boxes Generations denied the pleasure of sitting with a volume rich and heavy to the hand And knowing you could know everything there was to know about whatever started with an M through whatever started with an O

Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay

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Breakfast at the Chateau Lake Louise

Nature, Travel / tagged Rocky Mountains / July 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The sun strikes early on Mount Victoria waking diamonds in the old monarch’s crown washing softly down her ermine covered shoulders While surrounding peaks in playful disrespect throw hand puppets of bears and wolves across her lower skirts
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Marilyn in the Mountains

Nostalgia, Travel / July 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Sixty years after the release of the film returning again to The River of No Return Stepping again in a river that you can’t step in twice sleeping again in a cabin by the cabin where you slept Listening again to the rapids that run over the same rocks and still chew at the roots of the same bent tree Listening for the whispers of the words you went away without saying the words we are all still waiting to hear
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Thanking the Stars

Nature / July 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
This star I’m wishing on might be gone But counting as I only can In light moments not in years Must send as soon as now to it and all the dear ones gone thank you thank you for the light and condolences to the next of kin
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Chivalry Was Not Dead But Damp

Relationships / July 19, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It was a dark and stormy knight that led his lame horse through winter wet and counted out his woes An unending driz ran down his rusty helmet and burned and blurred his visored eyes He was as cross as the frayed cross on his tunic and swearing oaths at all the oaths he’d sworn Damsels, damn all damsels their gratitude had seldom lasted beyond the ride back to the castle Today he felt more kinship with the dragon and would have fain laid down his sword at the mouth of any breath-warmed cave
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For Mary Who Loves Horses

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / July 18, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I have ridden the fence line without believing in fences I have been one with the movement of horse the strength and speed of horse the grace of horse and the soul of horse I have been one with the wind and the high rolling hills and the sky I have stepped down with my hands filled with staples and pliers For the welfare of cattle and neighbours who still have need of believing in fences

Image by Michael Gaida from Pixabay

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Small Town Grief

Remembering / tagged Death, Media Overload, Small Town / July 17, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When a boy in our school died from a word we could say but not spell it was the only death to count There was no tv to diminish by compare and spread our grief so thin it would not cover him
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Alkali

Nature, Ranch Life / July 16, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The hills came down to the lake to drink Found it salt and crumpled back to wait for rain
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Home Made Ice Cream

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / July 15, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When I was five we lived on a ranch still forty miles and forty years away from electric power We only got to eat ice cream when hail lay deep enough on the ground to be scooped into the old hand mixer Many a hot evening in August and July five of us sat on those hard ranch steps looking out at the Western sky Watching the black clouds and the grey building and rolling our way Silently praying our protestant Hail Marys four for and Dad against
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The Car of Joy

Personal Growth / July 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The car of joy runs on wheels of completed grief
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