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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

Old Train Math

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Poems about Poetry, Travel / August 11, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
If a train leaves Moose Jaw heading west at the speed of first memory Engine, cars, and caboose zebra-ing by behind a snowfence smoke billowing back over its shoulder And another leaves, traveling east from my writing of it now When will they meet at the small town of Courval and your reading of this page
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Prairie Labyrinth

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged First Nations / August 7, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Back on the old Saskatchewan ranch If there are still places that the plow hasn’t turned under How long and how quietly would I have to walk round the tepee circles to be invited, If ever, inside
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Sweatband

Audio Recordings, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / August 6, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
he dress of a woman of Lhasa In its place Is an invisible element of that place Made visible — Wallace Stevens The halo of a Stetson has equal earn with angels The dirt mixed with salt comes from made-sacred land And is its voice
Author’s Stetson – sweat earned on Saskatchewan ranch
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Not All Snakes Are Venomous

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships, String Too Short To Save / August 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
What Eve and Adam gained was the knowledge of each other And did not leave, but became larger than, the garden
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Ode to Joy

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Covid19, Native American, Poetry / August 4, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Joy Harjo had some horses Joy Harjo and her people had some pain Joy Harjo is the US poet laureate again Present of song and hope in present tragedy
Joy Harjo Is Named U.S. Poet Laureate for a Second Term
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/books/joy-harjo-poet-laureate-second-term.html

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Zen Cowboy

Audio Recordings, Farm, Personal Growth, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Balance, Buddhism / August 3, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When the bronco  bucks you’d better be somewhere in that somewhere center Beware the tilt of think you or he have the winning hand Beware the tilt of hate his hide that brings you forward in the saddle and the tilt of fear that leans you to the rear There are no statues of the Buddha dusting off his sore backside
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Goldie at the Holiday Inn

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / August 2, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
At the Holiday Inn at the Dallas market they have a goldfish named Goldie who has his own aquarium and swims around lonely all day At the Holiday Inn at the Dallas market you can sleep late and make love and eat room service and light a candle if you bring one And Goldie don’t care if you sleep late and make love and eat room service but he sure do like that candle
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Musings of a Reformed Philosopher

Audio Recordings / tagged Philosophy, Wisdom / August 1, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
IT Is no longer a question of how many angels on the head of a pin but how many can he dance with
Caryatides, Erechteion, Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece
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And Yeti Persisted

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Covid19, Quarantine / July 31, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Hair and eyebrows long and Zoom calls all day long
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The Albatross of the Plains

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / July 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I shot a beaver in my youth who cursed me with this curse My teeth will be your poems now and in you, like me a gift unused grow fatal to the brain

Beavers’ teeth never stop growing so they chew on wood to keep them at a manageable length. If they didn’t maintain them their teeth would eventually grow into their brains.

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