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Traveling Not 2020

Nostalgia, Travel / tagged Covid19, Greece, Mykanos / June 29, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It’s one thing
not going back to Greece when you can

It’s quite another
when the choice is out of your hands

Shouldn’t have watched Mamma Mia tonight

Photo of Mykanos Harbour by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay

All They Survey

Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / June 23, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My father
would stand for hours
just looking at his cows

Like God leaning
on a rail fence in heaven
pleased with his creation

Photo by Nadine on Unsplash

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Revisiting Cathedrals in the Time of Travel Bans

Nostalgia, Remembering, Travel / tagged Covid19, Milan, Paris / June 22, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Ball Lightning

Family, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Father, Fathers Day, Regret / June 21, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the front door out the back

A ball of lightning through the barn
in the story dad would tell

I wonder now if the light was white
and if it made a sizzling sound
as some who’ve seen one have described

All happened in a blink I guess, and gone,
like this, and all the questions that I didn’t ask — Meili Barn 1952

Memories of Dad and the ranch on Father’s Day.

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Saddle

Cowboy Poetry, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / May 8, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There’s a saddle by the stair
All the horses dead and gone
Still happy in the song — Author’s saddle in our Edmonton home

Many miles – many memories

The Farm, The Ranch and the Need for God

Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Family, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / May 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who pray to when the rains don’t come
who forget to thank when they do

Who curse when the John Deere breaks
and the cow jumps over the moon
(by the moon of course I mean
the fence to the alfalfa field)

Who in the long nights pondering
under stars too cold to be suns
a word big enough for big — Needlepoint picture of “The Old Home Place” by the author’s dad, Walter Meili
which he created as part of rehabilitation following his stroke

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Lifebuoy

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Family, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / April 25, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I never have learned to swear very well which just goes to show that training will tell
That there is much to be said for good homes and payoffs for stern discipline and hope
It's not that I don't know the words
but they all still taste like soap.

A Long Way From Town

Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering, Travel / April 24, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Envy of the Lithe and Limber

Nostalgia, Pilots, Ranch Life / tagged Acrobats / April 18, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How in the air they spin

In circuses and cirque soleil
and Barishnikov in the ballet

Cartwheels flips and pirouettes
like Blue Angels in their jets

their bodies that is but not mine

Unless you count time in the air
bucked off again by that old mare

Memories of Almost

Nostalgia, Relationships / April 2, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Paging back to read
between the lines
of diaries unwritten

How beautiful you were
behind the blinds
of fear in each our eyes

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