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Wheat

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Baking, Bread, Communion, Harvest, Nourishment / September 24, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What perfect voice will sing the thruths of wheat? - Frederico Lorca

What half-ripe for chewing gum

Wheat for rolling waves in wind
Wheat for loaves and fishes giving

Wheat for shoveling wheat all day
and eating earned fresh from oven

Wheat for Jesus body sharing
with your brethren in the pews

Wheat for only rain is news

Ode to Ode to Autumn

Audio Recordings, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Autumn, Early Death, Fall, Harvest, Seasons / September 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Well John Keats
you nailed that one good
... to load and bless
with fruit the vines that
round the thatch-eves run

A continent away
I drive through fields
of swath-striped gold
and thing of you at 24
but two years from being
harvested while still green

Little Finnegan’s Wake

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Determination, Dogs, James Joyce, Literature, Loyalty, pets, Tenacity / September 21, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"Finnegan's Wake"
is a model of travail over time

It took James Joyce 17 years to write
and might take you that long to read

Finnegan is also the name
of a little Jack Russell Terrier
who went hiking with her master
Rich Moore near Pagosa Springs, Colorado

They found them seventy-two days later
on a rugged slope in the San Juan Mountains
Rich leaning dead against a yellow pine
and Finnegan still fiercely standing guard
Neilther Finnegan nor Joyce know how to give up

Click here to read more about Finney’s harrowing journey: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/richard-moore-jack-russell-terrier-pagosa-springs/

A House Without a Dog

Audio Recordings / tagged Dogs, pets, Unconditional Love / September 20, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A house without a dog is never truly warm
no matter what the thermostat says

A house however with a dog
is like a court with no judge or jury

Everyone gets the benefit of the doubt
and an ear scratch
by the bailiff gets you out

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Under the Porch

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Education, Expectations, Sport, Unconditional Love / September 19, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing about parents is they see you
as they'd like you to be, and you ain't

The thing about teachers and coaches
is they see you getting all those A's
and scoring on every play, and you cain't

The thing about dogs is
Hey, quit licking' on my face you fool

Flat Earther Grade One

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Education, Learning, Perspective / September 18, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don't be silly
the earth isn't round it's hilly

But you can't tell a teacher
with a marble
as round and blue
as my eyes that knew
that what they saw was true

so she taught
and taught til I forgot
but the hills were never the same

Back to Saskatchewan

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Country, Plains, Prairie / September 17, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After mountains piled on mountains
trees crowding trees and
sense-sating cities

a cleansing fast of horizon

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Narcissus in the West

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Experience, Perception / September 16, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Of course the view is all about you
The loneliness of panoramic plains
The big-small making mountains
It's still a mirror even if you're looking through

Don’t Fall Into the Emerald Lake

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Banff, Beauty, Caution, Mountains, Overwhelm, Rockies / September 15, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If this is your first trip
to the Canadian Rockies
and you have only all your life
gazed longingly at them in photos
we would suggest some basic cautions

For the first few days and maybe more
please keep a camera between you and the view

Breakfast at the Chateau Lake Louise

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Humor, Mountains, Rockies / September 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sun strikes early
on Mount Victoria
waking diamonds
in the old monarch's crown
washing softly
down her ermine covered shoulders

While surrounding peaks
in playful disrespect
throw hand puppets of bears and wolves
across her lower skirts

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