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Trains I Haven’t Been On

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Movies, Regrets / July 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Train to Toronto

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Communication, English, French, Humor / July 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bi-jovial porter
ties two cultures
with language of laughter

Back and 4th

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Canada, United States / July 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You know how
when you're stopped beside a car
and it moves foreward
and it seems like you're moving back
or it backs up
and it feels like you're moving forward

And it was the 4th of July
and we were parked beside a country
not knowing which was which

Prairie Chicken

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds, Courage, Survival / July 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I came up through the valley where the homesteaders had tried to make a go of it for a few years, past the tin cans and other evidence of their short stay trying to rust itself back into the ground. Up over the crest of the hill where the Indians had lived for centuries with no more evidence than the weathered rocks of tepee rings

It was spring and I stumbled upon what they may have seen for centuries, the mating ceremony of about twenty-five or thirty grouse. They didn't see or hear me and I stopped about ten yards away and wathched (although my mother might not have thought it proper)

The hens ran around, heads down and tails up in unbashful invitation while the cocks puffed up the air bags in their chests and drummed their challenge

They looked handsome and brave in their posturing and beckoning and their readiness for reckoning and the fights were on, straight on and straight up with spurs and feathers flying

It was vicious but pure
Not a cockfight for the amusement of the bloody-minded, but a way to see that only the strongest would sire the little broods that would have to survive the hawks, and the snakes, and the weather; and all the dangers of a land where it takes a great deal of courage
- just to be a chicken

Prairie Labyrinth

Audio Recordings / tagged Aboriginal, Acceptance, First Nations, Native Americans, Permission, Welcome / July 7, 2026 / 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

Eagle Bone Whistle

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged First Nations, Native Americans, Prayer, Spirituality / July 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Chain breathing with the Sioux
at a South Dakota sun dance

Praying that I might become
more perfectly hollow

That thy music may play
more beautifully through me

Setting the Poles c. 1910

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Maniwaki Moon

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Aboriginal, American Indian, First Nations, Journey, ritual, Spirtuality / July 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Through the sacred fire at the sacred lake
by the tree twice lightning struck
sacred tobacco and sacred cedar
burned in a sacred way
we circle and leave by the Eastern door

Learned From My Native Friend

Audio Recordings / tagged Aboriginal, American Indian, Community, First Nations, Wisdom / July 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Black Hills of Dakota

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Broken Promises, Mining, Natural Resources, Treaties / July 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Merry Go Roller Coaster Round

Audio Recordings / tagged Birth, Circle of Life, Death, Dying, Living / July 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The price you pay
for getting on this ride
is having to get off

Still want a ticket

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