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Judy

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Jealousy, Regret, Suicide / June 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Judy was a beauty
tall and blonde and shy
early this month she decided to die

The soft wise eyes, the curling lashes
all now ashes

We have been friends for twenty years
hugs and coffee when in town, cards when far away

And always the latest poetry

She said it was important, and it touched her
in places nothing and no one else could reach

Three years ago
I put my neck in a green-eyed noose

I sent no cards, I did not call

I do not know if I could have saved her
though touch and poetry have been known to

I only know I hate what I did and didn't do
I only know that she drowned out there alone
I only know it was a long time since I had thrown her a line

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The Other Well

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Capacity, Communication, Generosity / May 31, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Kim Heinrich

No need to ask
the depth of their well

What they say
is not how you'll tell

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The Well

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Capacity, Generosity, Giving, Need / May 30, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is no need to tell
the depth of your well

Just let each drink
according to their thirst

For Victor

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, Dogs, Learning, Love, pets, Wisdom / May 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The only trick an old dog can learn
is how to be an old dog

The minimum of turns one has to take
before lying down for that nap

That a bark is as good as a chace
for keeping squirrels off the deck

And that after all these years
of standing up for your standing friends
you've likely earned their kneeling by you now

Dogs and Boys

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Companionship, Connection, Dogs, Love, pets / May 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty thousand years
they walked the plains together

The boy did not know that
The dog did not know that

Or did they

Photo of author’s Uncle Bruce with Pepper circa 1928

Crab Apple Love

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Humor, Imperfection, Love, sensuality / May 22, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You'd be crabby too
if you'd been through what I've been through

Yes, you might be a little crabby too
if all your relatives looked down on you

Sweet Granny Smith with her stem in the air
pretending she's green as the unmown grass
has a worm hole or two I could tell you about

And there's no living with uncle Mac
since that damn computer came out

But enough about them, let's talk you and me
how I'm so much more than an ornamental tree

About how lovely I am, and inviting you in
your teeth in my flesh and your lips on my skin

So if you're looking for love that's true to the core
I'm telling you love, you'll be looking no more

If you're looking for love that's going to stick
I've got plenty of pectin to do that old trick

And we can be jammin' all night and all day
if you'll bring some sugar, and meet me half way

Wisdom

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / May 17, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I met a man I had not met
for fifty years or maybe more

Neither I nor the man I met
were the man we'd been before

I had never met the wise man
He had never met the poet

For Archbishop James Weisgerber; aka Father Jim during years at Athol Murray’s Notre Dame College Photo: Holy Rosary Cathedral – Regina, Saskatchewan

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School Reunion

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Friendship, School, Sports / May 16, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I went to school with supermen
all fearless and bulletproof
in hockey, football and life

They couldn't be hurt
and if there's any doubt
take two aspirin and run it out

Today their knees lock up
a golf club swing cracks a rib
one steps wrong - his leg's in a cast

They're getting more human by the day
and sometimes even at night

I blame it all on the hole in the ozone layer letting in more and more kryptonite

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One More For Kenny

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Connection, Death, Grief, Loss, Separation / May 15, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We were Siamese cousins
joined at the hip

So adept we never stepped
on each others toes

God the great and clumsy surgeon
has divided us

Wearing the right clothes
the scar doesn't show
but people sometimes wonder
why I walk in circles

Kenny and Me

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Family, Ranch Life, Relationships / May 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(or Ranching at Eighteen)

Together we were young
and strong and very bold
and together we could drink
more beer than we could hold

We could drive home late and fast
singing every Johnny Horton song
Then fall asleep for minutes
and still answer the morning gong

We would work it out in the hot hot sun
(so easy then did the poisons yield) As we sweated bales with pitch forks
and passed gas
in a thousand acre field

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