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Living on an Island Many Called a Farm

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Isolation, Story / December 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes a sailor from abroad
would cross the wide sea of sod

Telling to the adults tales
of cities, mountains and war

Though I had doubts at two
if any part of it was true

Grace in Austin

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Africa, Elegance, Poise / December 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Young slim and beautiful
she crosses 6th street
where no crosswalk is
into a darkened doorway

No one moves like that
who has not in her life or genes
carried a basket across the savannah
filled with eggs without a crack
or water without a wave

Saturday Night in Austin

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Fun, Happiness, Joy, Music, Willie Nelson / December 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's something about country music
that gets you feeling two inches taller
and all the gals are prettier up there too

I don't think it's just the boots
or Lone Star on tap at the Broken Spoke
that's got everybody in the place
feeling like they got there on Willie's bus

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Migration

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Birds / October 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall falling
we hosted great flocks
on their long way south

Blizzards of snow geese
and ducks and cranes a-clatter

Grain left behind the combine
topping their tanks with premium

We'll welcome them again in Spring
callings calmed to a Texas drawl

Photo Credit: James Meili

Gratitude Junkie

Audio Recordings, Family, Travel / tagged Feast, Gathering, Thanksgiving / October 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Turkeys are not a migratory bird
but they'll be there when you get there

As long as it's after mid-October
and drumsticks and pumpkin pie
with the apples of my Canadian eye

And before the third week in November
where American friends have a table set
for my second thanksgiving of the year

Who wouldn't be doubly grateful for that

Jeep

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Remembering, Travel / October 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad had a Willys Jeep
That took us to school for a while

In the wet it was wet, in the cold it was cold

Our baby teeth bounced from our jaws
And bruises covered every bum

We knew that it was built for war – it felt like war

Robert Frost in the Multiverse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Choices, Journey, Life, Opitions / September 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two roads
diverged in a yellow wood

and I took the one less
and the one more traveled by

Last Day in June

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dinner at the English Bay Cafe
first day the sun had shone since May

Everyone in Vancouver
looking like they'd won the lottery

After by the water
sitting not alone on a driftwood log
missing flight after flight back to Alberta

No one knows where they go when they die
and airplanes sometimes fall out of the sky

Why hurry to leave the heaven that's here

Sagrada Familia Familiar

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Barcelona, Cathedrals, Creation, Gaudi / September 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Don Quixote was an architect
he lunged with many lances at the sky

Cloud castles may have maidens in them
to rescue your soul in rescuing them

What beauty lies in madness
lies close to the skin of the seeming sane

And what magic falls with the rain in Spain

A Poem Before Holland

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Amsterdam, Netherlands / September 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I travel to Holland
on wings of a childhood story
silver skates and a finger in a dike

To lands wrestled from an angry sea
a sea that dearly wants them back
Unceasing vigilance to keep the prize
a dark line drawn across their eyes

I see windmills chop the salt wet air
art and flowers leaping up in faith
behind thin walls

Back to the little boy and the dike again
legal drugs and red lights in the rain
These are a fair and sturdy people
I like them now, and I like how

In a land where children must
so often act as men
they do not pass acts that treat
their men as children

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