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Holding Up the Line

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / August 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Barista, barista, if only you knew
what I'd like to order from you

Barista, barista
please, if you please
cold coffee in a Mason jar
like Momma sent to the fields
at harvest and at haying time

That much sugar
and that much cream
and no one wiped the lip
when they passed it round

Barista, barista
there's nothing I see
on that long fancy menu for me

I guess
I just came in to smell the coffee

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Coyote Eyes

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Connection, Dogs, Music / August 12, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is Austin
so a poet is running for mayor

We stop by a backyard party
in our neighbourhood to meet
greet and hopefully support her

It is Austin
so there is an eight piece band
The Bob Katz and they're very good

A dog with coyote eyes
comes up and wants to be my friend
so I make up
a Coyote Eyes, Coyote Eyes song
and sing it to her while the band
lights up Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire

and she looks up at me with thosse coyote eyes
and we are very much in love
but I am late for a poetry reading
at the English Café and have to leave
so she goes and sits by another man
She is looking up at him with those coyote eyes
I think she is trying to tell him
about the song

It Is Enough

Audio Recordings, Family, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Gratitude, Struggle / August 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is enough
that the baby smiles
even if it's only gas

It is enough
to know that God exists
though it take a lifetime
and a minute more

It is enough
that the dog loves you
at the end of a day filled
with cats

It is enough
that the rainbow
can arch your back
straight again

It is enough
to watch a sunset

It is enough
that leaves fall like butterflies

It is enough
that joy exists, even when
others have it all

It is enoughgh
that the other knee feels
fine

It is enough
that in dreams you can
still fly

It is enough
that poetry is in the bible
too

It is enough
that gifts come
in the size of gratitude

Reincarnation by Cloud

Audio Recordings / August 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Does the rain falling on us now
remember the palmed oasis
the emerald lake of the Rockies
the laughing over small stones

Hand in hand we stand
faces upward, wet with hope

Photo credit Joyce (Joy) Silzer. Prairie sky just outside Mossbank, Saskatchewan, one of the author’s home towns.

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Reincarnation by Loon

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Birds / August 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Now there's a sound
you could take anywhere
and remember
when you returned

The Joy of the Loon

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Birds, Music, Water / August 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The joy of the loon
is in sadness of his song
Candle Lake at dawn

The Cry of the Loon

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Birds, Water / August 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The cry of the loon
shatters the glass of the lake
V shard follows her

Pinawa Manitoba Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Travel / tagged Beauty, Calm, Water / August 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The lake was of glass
all the boats were painted boats
gulls few upside down

Decisions

Audio Recordings / tagged Choice / August 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"I was of three minds
like a tree in which there are three blackbirds" - Wallace Stevens

Rooted to the ground I wait
for one to fly away
and free me up to flip a coin

All Blackbirds

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / tagged Birds / August 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All blackbirds
are not black as jet

Here's one
King Midas kept as a pet

Yellow-Headed Blackbird pair near Old Wives Lake, Saskatchewan Photo courtesy of: Giselle Forest, Mossbank, Saskatchewan

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Sandi Hebley on Holding Up the LineAugust 13, 2026
Awwww!
Joy on Reincarnation by CloudAugust 10, 2026
Watching clouds move across the sky, The way they did years ago, Growing up on the prarie, watching sky and…
Sandi Hebley on Red-Winged BlackbirdAugust 3, 2026
This is a good one!
Sandi Hebley on The Man in the Desert RemembersJuly 21, 2026
Wow!
JM on The Man in the Desert RemembersJuly 21, 2026
This one really hit home Thank you

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