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Train Day

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Courval, Ghost Town, Prairie Life, Saskatchewan, Train Day, Trains / May 11, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Once a week, once a week
they came from all around, all around
and swelled, and swelled
the size of our young town

And the chugging grew, and the chugging grew
and the chugging grew, and the whistle blew
and all was new, and the children knew

But now the lines are down, all down
old folks and old dogs in the town
not a child nor a pup, nor a pup
and not one elevator up

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Sonnet for the Ordinary

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Care / May 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is a loving way to make a bed
With pillows care set at the head
And a mother’s loving knead to give
Adds nourishment to help us live

We know that water crystals change
With words of love or hate about
From snowflake to a muddy mange
And we are water without doubt

A cheerful flipper at the greasy spoon
Feeds us better though the food be junk
Than Pierre at the Ritz with silver spoon
Serving Crèpes Suzette with Galic funk

And care enough within a poem
can provide another home

Earthworm Dance

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Spring / May 6, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Think about earthworms dancing
in the earth
like dolphins in the sea

Pretend you can see through the earth
speed them up a little in your mind
watch the grace of their movements

Play your favourite music
watch them dance

And while they dance they eat the dark
and leave lightness behind

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My Mayday Maypole Birthday

Audio Recordings / May 1, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

May children dance
laughter wraps with ribbons
spring opens heart

Tony Campisi

Audio Recordings / tagged Austin, jazz month, Music, Saxophone / April 30, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tony Campisi plays Jazz
on an old tenor sax
notes you can’t play on a new

Brass as rich as stone walls
in an old world church
soaked in a thousand years
of latin mass

Tony Campisi plays Jazz
and somebody’s cryin, somebody’s dyin
somebody’s fallin in love – right now

Sunday Afternoon

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Connection / April 28, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It was a Sunday afternoon
about a year ago today
I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t stand
I just knew I couldn’t stay
So I took off for Toronto
fifteen hundred miles away

Two days of boring meetings
couldn’t stand to have one more
didn’t know where I needed to be
but it wasn’t here I knew for sure
So I grabbed a train to Windsor
and Detroit which lies next door

Outside spring was springing
and calling more and more
and I’d get to see some country
that I’d never seen before

Oh, the sheep were soft upon the land
and there was magic in the day
as I sipped my rum and cola
and rhymed couplets all the way

Checked in on Wednesday
wondering what to do
maybe I could try to call
a good old friend or two
There was a man I’d met in Banff

just three weeks before
a man of love and wisdom
that I’d like to see once more
And a lady of my poems
that I’d seen just twice before
thirty minutes in an airport
and two hours on the shore

He was busy in a meeting
she answered on first try
she had booked off work
without knowing why

And when I told her
that I was in her town
she said “I’ve got a story
and I’ll be right down”

It seems that her grand dad
who had raised her as a child
had died not long ago
and the grief had drove her wild

The family all were fighting
for the pennies on his eyes
and there was no one there
to hear her heartfelt cries

So she ran from that hospital
not knowing what to do
and stood on the highest hill
alone is a sky of blue
And loudly called my name
“Please come, please, I need you”

When I asked had she made this cry
and had I come real soon
“Oh it wasn’t very long ago
just Sunday afternoon”

Alberta Air

Audio Recordings, Nature, Ranch Life / April 24, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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April in Austin

Audio Recordings, Environment, Haiku, Nature, Nostalgia, Remembering / tagged Laurel / April 23, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After the rain
mountain laurel become
lilacs of childhood

The Old Blue Planet / Blue Roan

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Environment / April 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Happy Earth Day

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Jerusalem and Other Travels

Audio Recordings, Travel / April 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I wake in the night
in a prison of my making
rattling the bars of might have been
and should and should not have done

Unable to escape I pace and I wait

For Buddha to melt the illusion

Or for Jesus to open the door
with sweet forgiveness

Or God to at least send along
a minor prophet with
a file in a cake

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