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The Question

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Connection, Conversation, Sharing / June 21, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's Dad sitting
by the after branding fire
with some after branding beers

And we get to talking
heart to heart
of trails together and apart

And of the things we saw
which one brought us awe

Good Advice

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Grief, Humor, Loss / June 19, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Whenever anything got broke or lost
Kim's mother would always say:
Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you

Which is a good thing to remember
when your life becomes a country song
and your dog, and your wife
and your truck are gone

Your dog will miss you right away
and cry with the coyotes all the night
your wife will miss you later - maybe
and cry for all the coulda's that might

but you're sadly mistaken
if you think that old C-10 Chevy
following the repo truck down the lane
is going to miss you half as much as you miss it

Co-Boss

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / June 17, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Co-boss. Co-boss
to call the Holstein home

Co-boss. Co-boss and she comes
in full-udder-rocking rhythm
along the well-trod pasture path

Steps careful into the shadows
and hoof clicks to the second stall
for the evening exchange of gifts

Relief and oats and hay for her
warm milk for the kittens and me
cream and butter for the kitchen

Co-boss. Co-boss to say
equal partners in a gently way

A Prairie Villanelle

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering, Travel / June 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If prairie wheels again had I
I'd chew the gravel and the air
with prairie roads to fly

I'd plume the earth into the sky
to show them I was there
if prairie wheels again had I

Past places where dead neighbours lie
I'd not linger who would dare
with prairie roads to fly

Dust to dust gets in your eye
I'd look for other things to share
if prairie wheels again had I

Then greener farmyards I'd pass by
in mem-mirages free of care
with prairie roads to fly

I'd roll past all that makes you cry
afloat in sunsets clear and fair
if prairie wheels again had I
with prairie roads to fly

Invitation By Flower

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Connection, Love / June 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Little lantana growing
through old bench boards

Saying Come sit with me
and we will be flowers three

Let us smile at one another
like there will never be another

Roses in My Rear View Mirror

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged memories / June 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(and a few bluebonnets too)

There's a family always laughing
There are girls, and they're all smiling

There's a collie dog a roaming
chasing gophers down their holes

There's a ranch with grass all greening
fifteen minutes after rain

Maybe you can go home again

The Albums

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Aging, Connection, Pictures / June 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mother's shrinkage was marked by domicile

House, apartment, retirement and nursing home
shedding at each move, furniture, china and art
except for, and never, the old photo albums
heavy in padded leather brown and green

Each visit when conversation stuttered to a stall
(Religion all but Baptist drowned and what use is weather without crops)
out would come the albums
and in we all would dive
for pennies bright and shiny
at the bottom of the pool

Here's one from 1958
How young the queen looked then

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Cousins Round the Campfire

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / June 5, 2026 / 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

Copper Left Her Laugh

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Joy, Loss, Memory / June 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is on her answering machine
It is in the hearts of a thousand friends
As she laughs at death or with it

A Debbie Moment

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Death, Fear, Freedom, Struggle, Trust / June 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I was noticing again the other day
watching a movie, strangely enough
called "Remains of the Day"
that even though you had died
you haven't gone away

In the movie
a bird gets trapped in the house
and tries to fly
through the high ceiling glass

Remember the time in Austin
when the sparrow was trying in panic to escape this way

And you spoke to it in your stardust voice
and it landed in trust in your hands

I remember the windows you flew against
and your trust so light in my hands

And it's a comfort to see you and the sparrow
both flying free

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