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Coyote Eyes

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Dogs / October 8, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It is Austin
so a poet is running for mayor

We stop by a backyard party
in our neighborhood to meet
greet and hopefully support her

It is Austin
so there is an eight piece band
The Bob Katz and they’re very good

A dog with coyote eyes
comes up and wants to be my friend
so I make up
a Coyote Eyes, Coyote Eyes song
and sing it to her while the band
lights up Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire

And she looks up at me with those coyote eyes
and we are very much in love
But I am late for a poetry reading
at the English Café and have to leave
so she goes and sits by another man
She is looking up at him with those coyote eyes
I think she is trying to tell him
about the song

Thanks to veera Batlu for sharing their work on Unsplash.

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Cloud Coyote

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / October 7, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Cloud coyote
looking over his shoulder
to see what all the howling's about
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Do You See What I See

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / October 6, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The coyote doesn’t howl at the moon
he howls to the other coyotes
to remind them to look up
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2020 Cowboy

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life / tagged Covid19 / October 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Back to the ranch Vance
coyotes ain’t got no covid
sun goin’ down not me

Image by skeeze from Pixabay 

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Horizons Aren’t Equal Out Here

Audio Recordings, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Pioneers / October 4, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The East is fine
for color on the way to the barn
but by the time the chores are done it’s gone

The rest of the day we watch the West

That’s where the weather comes from

That’s the direction the grandfathers faced
when they got this far and found
what they were looking for
or gave up
unhitched the horses
and sat down to watch the sun set

North of the barn – facing West

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Technology

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Horses / October 3, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The day breathed in
and the day breathed out

After lunch my father took a nap
– the horses had to rest

By supper time they were fed
fed and brushed and thanked

And then the tractors came
– and tractors do not nap

Not content with that small theft
they soon grew lights and stole the dark

He fed them gas, they pulled the plow

But not once, one to the other
did they ever speak of love

Great Uncle Tony and Uncle Werner at seeding time – a long time ago

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Cousins Round the Campfire

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships / October 2, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Green twig pals by blaze
one will bend up one bend down
one will tell the town

Author age 12 with cousins Wayne and Lyle

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