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Dreams of My Father

Cattle, Cows, Family / tagged Illness / November 14, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Six weeks you lay in that coma
what dreams you had
I never asked, you never said

The telling of dreams
was not a morning ritual in our home

If in grade two
I had been asked of yours
I’d most likely have said
More cows and a better horse

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Visiting the Home

Relationships, Remembering / tagged Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia, Connections, Kindness / November 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

hour by hour the wonder grew
how little they remembered how much they knew

Boogeyman and Boy

String Too Short To Save / tagged Anxiety, Childhood, Fear / November 12, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The fears of the young
who live under the bed

Through time and mattress migrate
to doing it right and sweats in the night

Though Both May Tick

Relationships / November 11, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Though both may tick and both may break a heart is not a watch
A broken watch is little use a broken heart can mend a world

Rustlin’ Aint All About Cows

Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Nature, Travel / tagged Autumn / November 10, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Down by the Blanco as the fall dances start Sycamore trees in the Texas breeze rustle their skirts round their knobbly knees

Missing Leonard Cohen

Poems about Poetry, Remembering / tagged Music / November 9, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Leonard Cohen is gone He doesn't call, he doesn't write.
So huddle with me now
fellow worshipers and weepers
Huddle with me now round the poem and the song
and listen for the breadcrumb
and the hint of old perfume
that speak of other ways to God than through the holes in Jesus and the goddess

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Flying into Denver

Nature, Pilots, Travel / November 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Flying into Denver
starboard seat October
Mountains as white and light
as mom's meringue resting on a foothills crust

Arrows Away

Farm, Nostalgia, Pilots, Ranch Life, Travel / November 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is an arrow launcher you can make
with small town prairie scrap and scrape

A stick and a string and a shingle old or new

Shingles run from thick to thin
thick for the nose and thin for the fin

Notch it at the finger balance point
and it will fly farther than your slingshot flings
or paper airplane wings

We didn’t get this far west
without an urge for distance and flight

Buffalo Chips

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Farm, Manure, Ranch Life / November 6, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Lily pads floating
on the sea of prairie grass

Heat for the tepees
or the homesteaders cabin

Nothing wasted in the West

And every boy knew
that a good sharp stick or a pointy-toed shoe
would let you know
if one was just right, or still a little too new

And I’m here to tell you, that compared to a
good dry chip
meeting a West wind’s invitation
a Frisbee is a weak and poor, plastic imitation

Don’t Sam McGee Me

Poems about Poetry / tagged Cremation, Death / November 5, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Klondike cold or no
I will not
in the furnace go

deny the dancing worms
their dance

or diet overly
to short them in their feast

Click here to read the classic poem “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service

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